Fake package leaking when no [TARGETS]

[philderbeast]

There are quite a few fake-package issues. The user experience around this is not good when a cabal command expecting [TARGETS] is called without a target.

With haskell/containers@c651094;

$ cabal repl
Resolving dependencies...
Error: [Cabal-7076]
Internal error when trying to open a repl for the package fake-package-0.
The package is not in the set of available targets for the project plan, which
would suggest an inconsistency between readTargetSelectors and resolveTargets.

$ cabal repl containers
Resolving dependencies...
Build profile: -w ghc-9.8.2 -O1
In order, the following will be built (use -v for more details):
 - containers-0.6.8 (interactive) (lib) (configuration changed)
...
Ok, 37 modules loaded.
ghci> 

There is a cabal.project that we could use to list possible [TARGETS], such as those shown by #9744.

packages:
  containers/
  containers-tests/

tests: True
benchmarks: True

-- package containers-tests
--   ghc-options: -Werror

[stephen-smith]

Just noticed this today on an internal project. Anything I can collect and share to help? I thought this used to work with cabal-install 3.10, but the internal project now requires 3.12 so I haven't tested an older commit, yet.

EDIT: No, this did NOT work on 3.10. It just had a different error message that I found easier to understand.

[srid]

This can be reproduced on top of srid/haskell-multi-nix@9286987 by adding multi-repl: True to the cabal.project file followed by nix develop -c cabal repl:

Error: [Cabal-7076]
Internal error when trying to open a repl for the package fake-package-0. The package is not in the set of available targets for the project plan, which would suggest an inconsistency between readTargetSelectors and resolveTargets.

Uses GHC 9.6.6 and Cabal 3.12.1.0.