Open kolmodin opened 8 years ago
I think I also encountered this. Agreed that the error message is quite bad.
Dup of #1914, a classic bewildering error on Travis (travis-ci/travis-ci#2761).
As we figured in #1914, this is blocked on https://github.com/haskell/HTTP/issues/68, still undiagnosed.
I tried to install some packages with a lot of dependencies.
As seen in the log below, it started to download http-conduit but never reached to do "Configure". I suspect that the download failed, and there is no retry functionality.
The log file cabal-install refers to doesn't exist. Retrying solved the problem.
It seems that Cabal should retry downloads when they fail, and if they still fail it needs to be a more accurate log error saying exactly what went wrong.