From: Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:14:27 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: When setup.py fails to find the necessary bits to build some modules, have it
X-Git-Tag: v2.6a1~1462
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=879975677adb31c94384004e88b80e1da3528db8;p=python

When setup.py fails to find the necessary bits to build some modules, have it
print a slightly more informative message.
---

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 79d758f533..d768c65bf6 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -194,18 +194,21 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext):
             for e, f, g in zip(lst[::3], lst[1::3], lst[2::3]):
                 print "%-*s   %-*s   %-*s" % (longest, e, longest, f,
                                               longest, g)
-            print
 
         if missing:
             print
             print "Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules:"
             print_three_column(missing)
+            print ("To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in"
+                   " detect_modules() for the module's name.")
+            print
 
         if self.failed:
             failed = self.failed[:]
             print
             print "Failed to build these modules:"
             print_three_column(failed)
+            print
 
     def build_extension(self, ext):