Question about install.rb

When exconf.rb cannot create_makefile for some reason (e.g., a platform
issue), install.rb still tries to execute the make program in that dir.
The make program fails, finding no makefile, and install.rb reports that
as an error.

Is there some way to avoid this being reported as an error? ATM, I just
print out a message (from my extconf.rb) saying “please ignore the error
message after running ‘install.rb setup’”, but that’s not very user
friendly…