>build because of obscure compiler error Exactly what I had in mind, I never got such problems at least in installing libraries, how can that be an issue since

>build because of obscure compiler error Exactly what I had in mind, I never got such problems at least in installing libraries, how can that be an issue since we have pip? yes, some badly maintained libraries will have this, but that's the library author's issue and not a problem with Python's pip, on the contrary pip is working exactly fine if it complains.