diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 8d7713f..75280bb 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -91,10 +91,14 @@
 
 class PyBuildExt(build_ext):
 
+    def __init__(self, dist):
+        build_ext.__init__(self, dist)
+        self.failed = []
+
     def build_extensions(self):
 
         # Detect which modules should be compiled
-        self.detect_modules()
+        missing = self.detect_modules()
 
         # Remove modules that are present on the disabled list
         self.extensions = [ext for ext in self.extensions
@@ -178,6 +182,31 @@
 
         build_ext.build_extensions(self)
 
+        longest = max([len(e.name) for e in self.extensions])
+        if self.failed:
+            longest = max(longest, max([len(name) for name in self.failed]))
+
+        def print_three_column(lst):
+            lst.sort(key=str.lower)
+            # guarantee zip() doesn't drop anything
+            while len(lst) % 3:
+                lst.append("")
+            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)
+
+        if self.failed:
+            failed = self.failed[:]
+            print()
+            print("Failed to build these modules:")
+            print_three_column(failed)
+
     def build_extension(self, ext):
 
         if ext.name == '_ctypes':
@@ -189,6 +218,7 @@
         except (CCompilerError, DistutilsError) as why:
             self.announce('WARNING: building of extension "%s" failed: %s' %
                           (ext.name, sys.exc_info()[1]))
+            self.failed.append(ext.name)
             return
         # Workaround for Mac OS X: The Carbon-based modules cannot be
         # reliably imported into a command-line Python
@@ -209,6 +239,7 @@
         try:
             imp.load_dynamic(ext.name, ext_filename)
         except ImportError as why:
+            self.failed.append(ext.name)
             self.announce('*** WARNING: renaming "%s" since importing it'
                           ' failed: %s' % (ext.name, why), level=3)
             assert not self.inplace
@@ -234,6 +265,7 @@
             self.announce('*** WARNING: importing extension "%s" '
                           'failed with %s: %s' % (ext.name, exc_type, why),
                           level=3)
+            self.failed.append(ext.name)
 
     def get_platform(self):
         # Get value of sys.platform
@@ -299,6 +331,7 @@
             ]
         inc_dirs = self.compiler.include_dirs + ['/usr/include']
         exts = []
+        missing = []
 
         config_h = sysconfig.get_config_h_filename()
         config_h_vars = sysconfig.parse_config_h(open(config_h))
@@ -370,7 +403,7 @@
         # fast iterator tools implemented in C
         exts.append( Extension("itertools", ["itertoolsmodule.c"]) )
         # high-performance collections
-        exts.append( Extension("collections", ["collectionsmodule.c"]) )
+        exts.append( Extension("_collections", ["_collectionsmodule.c"]) )
         # bisect
         exts.append( Extension("_bisect", ["_bisectmodule.c"]) )
         # heapq
@@ -389,6 +422,8 @@
         # static Unicode character database
         if have_unicode:
             exts.append( Extension('unicodedata', ['unicodedata.c']) )
+        else:
+            missing.append('unicodedata')
         # access to ISO C locale support
         data = open('pyconfig.h').read()
         m = re.search(r"#s*define\s+WITH_LIBINTL\s+1\s*", data)
@@ -421,6 +456,11 @@
             if (config_h_vars.get('HAVE_GETSPNAM', False) or
                     config_h_vars.get('HAVE_GETSPENT', False)):
                 exts.append( Extension('spwd', ['spwdmodule.c']) )
+            else:
+                missing.append('spwd')
+        else:
+            missing.extend(['pwd', 'grp', 'spwd'])
+
         # select(2); not on ancient System V
         exts.append( Extension('select', ['selectmodule.c']) )
 
@@ -437,11 +477,15 @@
         # Memory-mapped files (also works on Win32).
         if platform not in ['atheos', 'mac']:
             exts.append( Extension('mmap', ['mmapmodule.c']) )
+        else:
+            missing.append('mmap')
 
         # Lance Ellinghaus's syslog module
         if platform not in ['mac']:
             # syslog daemon interface
             exts.append( Extension('syslog', ['syslogmodule.c']) )
+        else:
+            missing.append('syslog')
 
         # George Neville-Neil's timing module:
         # Deprecated in PEP 4 http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0004.html
@@ -468,6 +512,8 @@
             exts.append( Extension('imageop', ['imageop.c']) )
             # Read SGI RGB image files (but coded portably)
             exts.append( Extension('rgbimg', ['rgbimgmodule.c']) )
+        else:
+            missing.extend(['imageop', 'rgbimg'])
 
         # readline
         do_readline = self.compiler.find_library_file(lib_dirs, 'readline')
@@ -505,6 +551,9 @@
                                    library_dirs=['/usr/lib/termcap'],
                                    extra_link_args=readline_extra_link_args,
                                    libraries=readline_libs) )
+        else:
+            missing.append('readline')
+
         if platform not in ['mac']:
             # crypt module.
 
@@ -513,6 +562,8 @@
             else:
                 libs = []
             exts.append( Extension('crypt', ['cryptmodule.c'], libraries=libs) )
+        else:
+            missing.append('crypt')
 
         # CSV files
         exts.append( Extension('_csv', ['_csv.c']) )
@@ -545,6 +596,8 @@
                                    library_dirs = ssl_libs,
                                    libraries = ['ssl', 'crypto'],
                                    depends = ['socketmodule.h']), )
+        else:
+            missing.append('_ssl')
 
         # find out which version of OpenSSL we have
         openssl_ver = 0
@@ -578,6 +631,7 @@
                                    include_dirs = ssl_incs,
                                    library_dirs = ssl_libs,
                                    libraries = ['ssl', 'crypto']) )
+            missing.extend(['_sha', '_md5'])
         else:
             # The _sha module implements the SHA1 hash algorithm.
             exts.append( Extension('_sha', ['shamodule.c']) )
@@ -587,12 +641,14 @@
             exts.append( Extension('_md5',
                             sources = ['md5module.c', 'md5.c'],
                             depends = ['md5.h']) )
+            missing.append('_hashlib')
 
         if (openssl_ver < 0x00908000):
             # OpenSSL doesn't do these until 0.9.8 so we'll bring our own hash
             exts.append( Extension('_sha256', ['sha256module.c']) )
             exts.append( Extension('_sha512', ['sha512module.c']) )
-
+        else:
+            missing.extend(['_sha256', '_sha512'])
 
         # Modules that provide persistent dictionary-like semantics.  You will
         # probably want to arrange for at least one of them to be available on
@@ -618,10 +674,11 @@
             '/usr/include/db4',
             '/usr/local/include/db4',
             '/opt/sfw/include/db4',
-            '/sw/include/db4',
             '/usr/include/db3',
             '/usr/local/include/db3',
             '/opt/sfw/include/db3',
+            # Fink defaults (http://fink.sourceforge.net/)
+            '/sw/include/db4',
             '/sw/include/db3',
         ]
         # 4.x minor number specific paths
@@ -632,6 +689,8 @@
             db_inc_paths.append('/usr/local/include/db4%d' % x)
             db_inc_paths.append('/pkg/db-4.%d/include' % x)
             db_inc_paths.append('/opt/db-4.%d/include' % x)
+            # MacPorts default (http://www.macports.org/)
+            db_inc_paths.append('/opt/local/include/db4%d' % x)
         # 3.x minor number specific paths
         for x in (3,):
             db_inc_paths.append('/usr/include/db3%d' % x)
@@ -656,7 +715,7 @@
                 std_variants.append(os.path.join(dn, "db3.%d"%x))
 
         db_inc_paths = std_variants + db_inc_paths
-
+        db_inc_paths = [p for p in db_inc_paths if os.path.exists(p)]
 
         db_ver_inc_map = {}
 
@@ -679,7 +738,7 @@
                         if ( (db_ver not in db_ver_inc_map) and
                            (db_ver <= max_db_ver and db_ver >= min_db_ver) ):
                             # save the include directory with the db.h version
-                            # (first occurrance only)
+                            # (first occurrence only)
                             db_ver_inc_map[db_ver] = d
                             if db_setup_debug:
                                 print("db.h: found", db_ver, "in", d)
@@ -688,7 +747,8 @@
                             if db_setup_debug: print("db.h: ignoring", d)
                     else:
                         # ignore this header, it didn't contain a version number
-                        if db_setup_debug: print("db.h: unsupported version", db_ver, "in", d)
+                        if db_setup_debug:
+                            print("db.h: no version number version in", d)
 
             db_found_vers = sorted(db_ver_inc_map.keys())
 
@@ -698,10 +758,8 @@
 
                 # check lib directories parallel to the location of the header
                 db_dirs_to_check = [
-                    os.path.join(db_incdir, '..', 'lib64'),
-                    os.path.join(db_incdir, '..', 'lib'),
-                    os.path.join(db_incdir, '..', '..', 'lib64'),
-                    os.path.join(db_incdir, '..', '..', 'lib'),
+                    db_incdir.replace("include", 'lib64'),
+                    db_incdir.replace("include", 'lib'),
                 ]
                 db_dirs_to_check = filter(os.path.isdir, db_dirs_to_check)
 
@@ -742,6 +800,7 @@
             db_incs = None
             dblibs = []
             dblib_dir = None
+            missing.append('_bsddb')
 
         # The sqlite interface
         sqlite_setup_debug = False   # verbose debug prints from this script?
@@ -834,6 +893,8 @@
                                   runtime_library_dirs=sqlite_libdir,
                                   extra_link_args=sqlite_extra_link_args,
                                   libraries=["sqlite3",]))
+        else:
+            missing.append('_sqlite3')
 
         # Look for Berkeley db 1.85.   Note that it is built as a different
         # module name so it can be included even when later versions are
@@ -856,6 +917,10 @@
                                           libraries=libraries))
                 else:
                     exts.append(Extension('bsddb185', ['bsddbmodule.c']))
+            else:
+                missing.append('bsddb185')
+        else:
+            missing.append('bsddb185')
 
         # The standard Unix dbm module:
         if platform not in ['cygwin']:
@@ -881,11 +946,15 @@
                                        define_macros=[('HAVE_BERKDB_H',None),
                                                       ('DB_DBM_HSEARCH',None)],
                                        libraries=dblibs))
+            else:
+                missing.append('dbm')
 
         # Anthony Baxter's gdbm module.  GNU dbm(3) will require -lgdbm:
         if (self.compiler.find_library_file(lib_dirs, 'gdbm')):
             exts.append( Extension('gdbm', ['gdbmmodule.c'],
                                    libraries = ['gdbm'] ) )
+        else:
+            missing.append('gdbm')
 
         # Unix-only modules
         if platform not in ['mac', 'win32']:
@@ -894,6 +963,8 @@
             # Jeremy Hylton's rlimit interface
             if platform not in ['atheos']:
                 exts.append( Extension('resource', ['resource.c']) )
+            else:
+                missing.append('resource')
 
             # Sun yellow pages. Some systems have the functions in libc.
             if platform not in ['cygwin', 'atheos']:
@@ -903,6 +974,10 @@
                     libs = []
                 exts.append( Extension('nis', ['nismodule.c'],
                                        libraries = libs) )
+            else:
+                missing.append('nis')
+        else:
+            missing.extend(['nis', 'resource', 'termios'])
 
         # Curses support, requiring the System V version of curses, often
         # provided by the ncurses library.
@@ -931,13 +1006,16 @@
 
             exts.append( Extension('_curses', ['_cursesmodule.c'],
                                    libraries = curses_libs) )
+        else:
+            missing.append('_curses')
 
         # If the curses module is enabled, check for the panel module
         if (module_enabled(exts, '_curses') and
             self.compiler.find_library_file(lib_dirs, panel_library)):
             exts.append( Extension('_curses_panel', ['_curses_panel.c'],
                                    libraries = [panel_library] + curses_libs) )
-
+        else:
+            missing.append('_curses_panel')
 
         # Andrew Kuchling's zlib module.  Note that some versions of zlib
         # 1.1.3 have security problems.  See CERT Advisory CA-2002-07:
@@ -973,6 +1051,12 @@
                     exts.append( Extension('zlib', ['zlibmodule.c'],
                                            libraries = ['z'],
                                            extra_link_args = zlib_extra_link_args))
+                else:
+                    missing.append('zlib')
+            else:
+                missing.append('zlib')
+        else:
+            missing.append('zlib')
 
         # Gustavo Niemeyer's bz2 module.
         if (self.compiler.find_library_file(lib_dirs, 'bz2')):
@@ -983,6 +1067,8 @@
             exts.append( Extension('bz2', ['bz2module.c'],
                                    libraries = ['bz2'],
                                    extra_link_args = bz2_extra_link_args) )
+        else:
+            missing.append('bz2')
 
         # Interface to the Expat XML parser
         #
@@ -1020,14 +1106,20 @@
                                   include_dirs = [expatinc],
                                   sources = ['_elementtree.c'],
                                   ))
+        else:
+            missing.append('_elementtree')
 
         # Hye-Shik Chang's CJKCodecs modules.
         if have_unicode:
             exts.append(Extension('_multibytecodec',
                                   ['cjkcodecs/multibytecodec.c']))
             for loc in ('kr', 'jp', 'cn', 'tw', 'hk', 'iso2022'):
-                exts.append(Extension('_codecs_' + loc,
+                exts.append(Extension('_codecs_%s' % loc,
                                       ['cjkcodecs/_codecs_%s.c' % loc]))
+        else:
+            missing.append('_multibytecodec')
+            for loc in ('kr', 'jp', 'cn', 'tw', 'hk', 'iso2022'):
+                missing.append('_codecs_%s' % loc)
 
         # Dynamic loading module
         if sys.maxint == 0x7fffffff:
@@ -1035,6 +1127,10 @@
             dl_inc = find_file('dlfcn.h', [], inc_dirs)
             if (dl_inc is not None) and (platform not in ['atheos']):
                 exts.append( Extension('dl', ['dlmodule.c']) )
+            else:
+                missing.append('dl')
+        else:
+            missing.append('dl')
 
         # Thomas Heller's _ctypes module
         self.detect_ctypes(inc_dirs, lib_dirs)
@@ -1046,14 +1142,20 @@
         if platform == 'linux2':
             # Linux-specific modules
             exts.append( Extension('linuxaudiodev', ['linuxaudiodev.c']) )
+        else:
+            missing.append('linuxaudiodev')
 
         if platform in ('linux2', 'freebsd4', 'freebsd5', 'freebsd6',
                         'freebsd7'):
             exts.append( Extension('ossaudiodev', ['ossaudiodev.c']) )
+        else:
+            missing.append('ossaudiodev')
 
         if platform == 'sunos5':
             # SunOS specific modules
             exts.append( Extension('sunaudiodev', ['sunaudiodev.c']) )
+        else:
+            missing.append('sunaudiodev')
 
         if platform == 'darwin' and ("--disable-toolbox-glue" not in
                 sysconfig.get_config_var("CONFIG_ARGS")):
@@ -1142,6 +1244,11 @@
         # Call the method for detecting whether _tkinter can be compiled
         self.detect_tkinter(inc_dirs, lib_dirs)
 
+        if '_tkinter' not in [e.name for e in self.extensions]:
+            missing.append('_tkinter')
+
+        return missing
+
     def detect_tkinter_darwin(self, inc_dirs, lib_dirs):
         # The _tkinter module, using frameworks. Since frameworks are quite
         # different the UNIX search logic is not sharable.