diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb b/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb
index 6dca1faa2f..0cf351ba2a 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ protected
       end
     end
   rescue
-    raise BuildError.new(cmd, args)
+    raise BuildError.new(cmd, args, $?)
   end
 
 private
diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/global.rb b/Library/Homebrew/global.rb
index 946ce66697..8b9aba4b25 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/global.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/global.rb
@@ -57,8 +57,11 @@ HOMEBREW_USER_AGENT = "Homebrew #{HOMEBREW_VERSION} (Ruby #{RUBY_VERSION}-#{RUBY
 
 
 class ExecutionError <RuntimeError
-  def initialize cmd, args=[]
+  attr :status
+
+  def initialize cmd, args=[], status=nil
     super "Failure while executing: #{cmd} #{args*' '}"
+    @status = status
   end
 end
 
diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb b/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb
index 3981199458..0f94cce6eb 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb
@@ -86,13 +86,10 @@ def safe_system cmd, *args
   puts "#{cmd} #{args*' '}" if ARGV.verbose?
   exec_success = Kernel.system cmd, *args
   # some tools, eg. tar seem to confuse ruby and it doesn't propogate the
-  # CTRL-C interrupt to us too, so execution continues, but the exit code os
+  # CTRL-C interrupt to us too, so execution continues, but the exit code is
   # still 2 so we raise our own interrupt
   raise Interrupt, cmd if $?.termsig == 2
-  unless exec_success
-    puts "Exit code: #{$?}"
-    raise ExecutionError.new(cmd, args)
-  end 
+  raise ExecutionError.new(cmd, args, $?) unless exec_success
 end
 
 def curl *args
@@ -146,7 +143,6 @@ def arch_for_command cmd
     return archs
 end
 
-
 # replaces before with after for the file path
 def inreplace path, before, after
   f = File.open(path, 'r')
diff --git a/bin/brew b/bin/brew
index cebc147de8..e926d392f0 100755
--- a/bin/brew
+++ b/bin/brew
@@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ EOS
 end
 
 def please_report_bug; <<-EOS
-Please report this bug to #{HOMEBREW_WWW} including the following information:
-Mac OS X: #{MACOS_VERSION}
+Please report this bug to #{HOMEBREW_WWW}
+Mac OS X: #{MACOS_FULL_VERSION}
 Ponk: #{macports_or_fink_installed?}
   EOS
 end
@@ -263,7 +263,10 @@ rescue SystemCallError, RuntimeError => e
     puts e.backtrace
   else
     onoe e
-    puts please_report_bug if e.kind_of? BuildError
+    if e.kind_of? BuildError
+      puts please_report_bug
+      puts "Exit Status: #{e.status}"
+    end
   end
   exit 1
 rescue Exception => e