[Distutils] Automatically detect wrong lib-format for borland compiler?

I just had the idea to make bcccompiler a little bit more robust. By default, python is delivered with pythonxx.lib and pythonxx_d.lib import libraries generated by MSVC, which are in COFF format. By inspection I found that these libraries start with the bytes '!<arch>./' (without the single quotes). Shouldn't we open these files and issue a warning or error if they start with these bytes? We could even invoke borland's coff2omf utility to convert them... Thomas