Fix error caused by missing spack-build.out build log

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/build_environment.py b/lib/spack/spack/build_environment.py
index 7a47da13f7..8cda3fff08 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/build_environment.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/build_environment.py
@@ -908,7 +908,7 @@ class ChildError(InstallError):
         if (self.module, self.name) in ChildError.build_errors:
             # The error happened in some external executed process. Show
             # the build log with errors highlighted.
-            if self.build_log:
+            if self.build_log and os.path.exists(self.build_log):
                 errors, warnings = parse_log_events(self.build_log)
                 nerr = len(errors)
                 if nerr > 0:
@@ -929,7 +929,7 @@ class ChildError(InstallError):
         if out.getvalue():
             out.write('\n')
 
-        if self.build_log:
+        if self.build_log and os.path.exists(self.build_log):
             out.write('See build log for details:\n')
             out.write('  %s' % self.build_log)
 
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/error.py b/lib/spack/spack/error.py
index e179cb5876..ac6a81035a 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/error.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/error.py
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ class SpackError(Exception):
         """Print extended debug information about this exception.
 
         This is usually printed when the top-level Spack error handler
-        calls ``die()``, but it acn be called separately beforehand if a
+        calls ``die()``, but it can be called separately beforehand if a
         lower-level error handler needs to print error context and
         continue without raising the exception to the top level.
         """