[Bug #620630] Flush stdout after logging every message. Without it,

when output is redirected to a file, compiler error messages show
   up before Distutils prints the command being invoked.

Lib/distutils/log.py

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 ERROR = 4
 FATAL = 5
 
+import sys
+
 class Log:
 
     def __init__(self, threshold=WARN):
@@ -17,6 +19,7 @@ def __init__(self, threshold=WARN):
     def _log(self, level, msg, args):
         if level >= self.threshold:
             print msg % args
+            sys.stdout.flush()
 
     def log(self, level, msg, *args):
         self._log(level, msg, args)