[issue6731] Add option of non-zero exit status of setup.py when building of extensions has failed

Jean-Paul Calderone report at bugs.python.org
Wed Aug 19 22:09:24 CEST 2009


Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> added the comment:

This makes it more easily possible for automated systems to detect that
there was a problem with the build.

Checking an exit code is easy.  Grabbing and parsing stdout and stderr
is hard and fragile.

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