[Python-Dev] suggest change to "Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules" message

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Tue Dec 23 19:13:17 CET 2008


On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 09:59, Mike Coleman <tutufan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was thrown by the "Failed to find the necessary bits to build these
> modules" message at the end of newer Python builds, and thought that
> this indicated that the Python executable itself was not built.
> That's arguably stupidity on my part, but I wonder if others will not
> trip on this, too.
>
> Would it be possible to change this wording slightly, to something like
>
>    Python built, but failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules
>
> ?

Sounds reasonable to me. Can you file a bug report at bugs.python.org,
Mike, so this doesn't get lost?

-Brett


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