From 9d46b9ce9760f8cd6c29b05c50b9e41ffe781f4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Ward <gward@python.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 01:19:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] When emitting a command-line error message, *say* it's an
 error.

---
 Lib/distutils/core.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/core.py b/Lib/distutils/core.py
index 13bf9c7fcbc..fd5ba907fb0 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/core.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/core.py
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ def setup (**attrs):
         ok = dist.parse_command_line (sys.argv[1:])
     except DistutilsArgError, msg:
         sys.stderr.write (usage + "\n")
-        raise SystemExit, msg
+        raise SystemExit, "error: %s" % msg
 
     # And finally, run all the commands found on the command line.
     if ok: