New submission from Miroslav Madecki : I'm using setuptools 06c9 on CentOs 5.X i386/x86_64. When using bdist_egg command one would expect setuptools to stop once byte-compile encounters an error (e.g. python source file with syntax errors) and would also return exit value other than 0 indicating a failure. Unfortunately neither is the case so if you use setuptools within makefiles it won't stop make in the case of errors. I'm surprised that nobody else reported this issue. Example is attached below. -Miro [miro@t42 monty]$ python25 ipdrfc-setup.py bdist_egg ..... byte-compiling build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/abn/ipdrfc/cfg.py to cfg.pyc File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/abn/ipdrfc/cfg.py", line 184 defset_exporter(ipAddr, cfg, RexGroup=None, RexListenPort=None, LogLevel=None): ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax byte-compiling build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/abn/ipdrfc/reader.py to reader.pyc byte-compiling build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/abn/ipdrfc/sshconsole.py to sshconsole.pyc byte-compiling build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/abn/ipdrfc/backup.py to backup.pyc creating build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/EGG-INFO copying src/abn_ipdrfc.egg-info/PKG-INFO -> build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/EGG-INFO copying src/abn_ipdrfc.egg-info/SOURCES.txt -> build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/EGG-INFO copying src/abn_ipdrfc.egg-info/dependency_links.txt -> build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/EGG-INFO copying src/abn_ipdrfc.egg-info/namespace_packages.txt -> build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/EGG-INFO copying src/abn_ipdrfc.egg-info/top_level.txt -> build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/EGG-INFO zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents... creating 'dist/abn_ipdrfc-3.2.0-py2.5.egg' and adding 'build/bdist.linux-i686/egg' to it removing 'build/bdist.linux-i686/egg' (and everything under it) [miro@t42 monty]$ echo $? 0 ---------- messages: 243 nosy: miro priority: urgent status: unread title: bdist_egg command doesn't stop after byte-compile errors _______________________________________________ Setuptools tracker http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue61 _______________________________________________