Bootstrap question

Hello all,

I just recently started setting up cc and I haave a few questions I'll  
be posting. The first are:

Is there a way to fail the build if one of the bootstrap steps have  
failed?
Why does the bootstrap doesn't count toward the Build time?

Please bare with the newbie here :)

Thanks!
Keep up the good work. 

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