[Distutils] behavior when failing to build an extension?

[Just van Rossum]

Bernhard Herzog wrote:

> Yes, distutils stops with a message along the lines of 
> error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
> 
> That's also what e.g. make does by default, unless you run it with the
> -k flag.

Ok, thanks, then there's not much for me to do, except perhaps at some point
make the error message nicer: it now crashes with a nasty traceback...

Btw. does really nobody have any advice on my ranlib question of a couple of
days ago?

Just