Also, *please* provide stderr in the error message when an external command fails. Otherwise, it's impossible to properly debug failure of external commands.


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ERROR: test_build_ext (packaging.tests.test_command_build_ext.BuildExtTestCase)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\cygwin\home\db3l\buildarea\3.x.bolen-windows\build\lib\packaging\compiler\msvc9compiler.py", line 622, in link
    self.spawn([self.linker] + ld_args)
  File "D:\cygwin\home\db3l\buildarea\3.x.bolen-windows\build\lib\packaging\compiler\ccompiler.py", line 847, in spawn
    spawn(cmd, dry_run=self.dry_run)
  File "D:\cygwin\home\db3l\buildarea\3.x.bolen-windows\build\lib\packaging\util.py", line 783, in spawn
    raise PackagingExecError(msg % (cmd, exit_status))
packaging.errors.PackagingExecError: command '['C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\\VC\\BIN\\link.exe', '/DLL', '/nologo', '/INCREMENTAL:no', '/DEBUG', '/pdb:None', '/LIBPATH:D:\\cygwin\\home\\db3l\\buildarea\\3.x.bolen-windows\\build\\libs', '/LIBPATH:D:\\cygwin\\home\\db3l\\buildarea\\3.x.bolen-windows\\build\\PCbuild', '/EXPORT:initxx', 'c:\\docume~1\\db3l\\locals~1\\temp\\tmp3sylqy\\tmp4kk72e\\Debug\\docume~1\\db3l\\locals~1\\temp\\tmp3sylqy\\tmp4kk72e\\xxmodule.obj', '/OUT:c:\\docume~1\\db3l\\locals~1\\temp\\tmp3sylqy\\tmp4kk72e\\xx_d.pyd', '/IMPLIB:c:\\docume~1\\db3l\\locals~1\\temp\\tmp3sylqy\\tmp4kk72e\\Debug\\docume~1\\db3l\\locals~1\\temp\\tmp3sylqy\\tmp4kk72e\\xx_d.lib', '/MANIFESTFILE:c:\\docume~1\\db3l\\locals~1\\temp\\tmp3sylqy\\tmp4kk72e\\Debug\\docume~1\\db3l\\locals~1\\temp\\tmp3sylqy\\tmp4kk72e\\xx_d.pyd.manifest']' failed with exit status 1120