diff --git a/scripts/build-distro-release.sh b/scripts/build-distro-release.sh
index 9fd628c..b7350c0 100644
--- a/scripts/build-distro-release.sh
+++ b/scripts/build-distro-release.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-set -euo pipefail
+set -Eeuo pipefail
 
 MODULE_NAME="${MODULE_NAME:-ngx_http_monitoring_module}"
 DEB_PACKAGE_NAME="${DEB_PACKAGE_NAME:-libnginx-mod-http-monitoring}"
@@ -18,6 +18,22 @@ GITHUB_SHA="${GITHUB_SHA:-unknown}"
 
 export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
 
+on_error() {
+    local status="$?"
+    local line="${BASH_LINENO[0]:-unknown}"
+
+    echo "::error::distro release build failed at line ${line} with exit code ${status}" >&2
+
+    if [[ -n "${WORK_ROOT:-}" && -d "$WORK_ROOT" ]]; then
+        find "$WORK_ROOT" -path '*/objs/autoconf.err' -type f -print -exec sed -n '1,160p' {} \; >&2 || true
+        find "$WORK_ROOT" -path '*/objs/*.log' -type f -print -exec sed -n '1,160p' {} \; >&2 || true
+    fi
+
+    exit "$status"
+}
+
+trap on_error ERR
+
 slugify() {
     tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' \
         | sed -E 's/[^a-z0-9.+~]+/./g; s/^[.]+//; s/[.]+$//'
@@ -255,9 +271,7 @@ apt-get build-dep -y --no-install-recommends "${source_package}=${source_version
     || apt-get build-dep -y --no-install-recommends "$source_package"
 
 nginx_build_info="$build_root/nginx-build-info.json"
-python3 /work/scripts/nginx-build-info.py --nginx-src "$nginx_src" --json > "$nginx_build_info"
 modules_path="$(python3 /work/scripts/nginx-build-info.py --modules-path)"
-configure_line="$(python3 /work/scripts/nginx-build-info.py --nginx-src "$nginx_src" --configure-line)"
 
 case "$modules_path" in
     /*) ;;
@@ -269,9 +283,17 @@ deb_revision_slug="$(printf '%s%s.nginx%s' "$distro_id" "$distro_version" "$sour
 deb_version="${NEXT_VERSION}-1+${deb_revision_slug}"
 build_metadata="$(printf '%s.%s.%s' "$distro_slug" "$deb_arch" "$source_version_slug" | slugify)"
 module_cflags="-DNGX_HTTP_MONITORING_MODULE_VERSION=\\\"${NEXT_VERSION}\\\" -DNGX_HTTP_MONITORING_BUILD_METADATA=\\\"${build_metadata}\\\""
+python3 /work/scripts/nginx-build-info.py \
+    --nginx-src "$nginx_src" \
+    --extra-cc-opt "$module_cflags" \
+    --json > "$nginx_build_info"
+configure_line="$(python3 /work/scripts/nginx-build-info.py \
+    --nginx-src "$nginx_src" \
+    --extra-cc-opt "$module_cflags" \
+    --configure-line)"
 
 cd "$nginx_src"
-eval "./configure ${configure_line} --with-cc-opt=\"${module_cflags}\" --add-dynamic-module=/work"
+eval "./configure ${configure_line} --add-dynamic-module=/work"
 
 build_jobs="$(nproc)"
 if [[ "$TARGET_ARCH" != "linux-x86_64" && "$build_jobs" -gt 2 ]]; then
diff --git a/scripts/nginx-build-info.py b/scripts/nginx-build-info.py
index b896929..f3f5493 100644
--- a/scripts/nginx-build-info.py
+++ b/scripts/nginx-build-info.py
@@ -68,17 +68,39 @@ def rewrite_module_path(arg, nginx_src):
     return arg
 
 
-def rewrite_configure_args(args, nginx_src):
-    if not nginx_src:
+def add_extra_cc_opt(args, extra_cc_opt):
+    if not extra_cc_opt:
         return args
 
-    return [rewrite_module_path(arg, nginx_src) for arg in args]
+    rewritten = []
+    found = False
+
+    for arg in args:
+        if arg.startswith("--with-cc-opt="):
+            found = True
+            rewritten.append(arg + " " + extra_cc_opt)
+        else:
+            rewritten.append(arg)
+
+    if not found:
+        rewritten.append("--with-cc-opt=" + extra_cc_opt)
+
+    return rewritten
+
+
+def rewrite_configure_args(args, nginx_src, extra_cc_opt):
+    if not nginx_src:
+        return add_extra_cc_opt(args, extra_cc_opt)
+
+    rewritten = [rewrite_module_path(arg, nginx_src) for arg in args]
+    return add_extra_cc_opt(rewritten, extra_cc_opt)
 
 
 def main():
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
     parser.add_argument("--nginx-bin", default="nginx")
     parser.add_argument("--nginx-src", default="")
+    parser.add_argument("--extra-cc-opt", default="")
     parser.add_argument("--json", action="store_true")
     parser.add_argument("--configure-line", action="store_true")
     parser.add_argument("--modules-path", action="store_true")
@@ -86,7 +108,11 @@ def main():
 
     output = nginx_v_output(args.nginx_bin)
     version, configure_line, configure_args = parse_nginx_v(output)
-    rewritten_args = rewrite_configure_args(configure_args, args.nginx_src)
+    rewritten_args = rewrite_configure_args(
+        configure_args,
+        args.nginx_src,
+        args.extra_cc_opt,
+    )
 
     modules_path = option_value(configure_args, "--modules-path")
     if not modules_path: