[Python-Dev] make install failing with current cvs

[Martin v. Löwis]

Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl> writes:

> The compileall step gets TabError
> exceptions for these files, and this causes it to finally exiting with
> a non-zero exit status.
[...]
> I've looked around and I think patch 661719 has something to do with
> this, but I'm not sure.

It does: Any kind of SyntaxError would be ignored in compileall, now
it causes a non-zero exist status (although compileall continues after
the error)

If this is desired, I can restore it to let SyntaxErrors pass silently
again. 

I think it was unintentional that compileall would succeed even if
there were syntax errors; compile_dir would check whether the result
of py_compile.compile was 0, however, the only possible result of that
function was None.

Regards,
Martin