Author: Armin Rigo <[email protected]>
Branch: 
Changeset: r3004:def116eeded6
Date: 2017-08-25 10:35 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/changeset/def116eeded6/

Log:    Improve error message

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -44,11 +44,14 @@
 
 def no_working_compiler_found():
     sys.stderr.write("""
-    No working compiler found, or bogus compiler options
-    passed to the compiler from Python's distutils module.
-    See the error messages above.
-    (If they are about -mno-fused-madd and you are on OS/X 10.8,
-    see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22313407/ .)\n""")
+    No working compiler found, or bogus compiler options passed to
+    the compiler from Python's standard "distutils" module.  See
+    the error messages above.  Likely, the problem is not related
+    to CFFI but generic to the setup.py of any Python package that
+    tries to compile C code.  (Hints: on OS/X 10.8, for errors about
+    -mno-fused-madd see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22313407/
+    Otherwise, see https://wiki.python.org/moin/CompLangPython or
+    the IRC channel #python on irc.freenode.net.)\n""")
     sys.exit(1)
 
 def get_config():
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