[Distutils] behavior when failing to build an extension?

[Just van Rossum]

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

> > 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...
> 
> distutils is your friend here: you just have subclass build_ext.

I have no idea what that has to do with what I wrote...

> > Btw. does really nobody have any advice on my ranlib question of a couple of
> > days ago?
> 
> Nope. Why don't you write up a patch which then only affects distutils
> on Macs ?!

Ok, I'll try. I didn't know whether that was a nono or not.

Just