[Distutils] behavior when failing to build an extension?
Just van Rossum
just@letterror.com
Thu Aug 9 17:43:00 2001
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