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diff --git a/support/scripts/pycompile.py b/support/scripts/pycompile.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# Wrapper for python2 and python3 around compileall to raise exception
+# when a python byte code generation failed.
+#
+# Inspired from:
+#   http://stackoverflow.com/questions/615632/how-to-detect-errors-from-compileall-compile-dir
+
+from __future__ import print_function
+import sys
+import py_compile
+import compileall
+
+class ReportProblem:
+    def __nonzero__(self):
+        type, value, traceback = sys.exc_info()
+        if type is not None and issubclass(type, py_compile.PyCompileError):
+            print("Cannot compile %s" %value.file)
+            raise value
+        return 1
+
+report_problem = ReportProblem()
+
+compileall.compile_dir(sys.argv[1], quiet=report_problem)