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diff --git a/support/scripts/hardlink-or-copy b/support/scripts/hardlink-or-copy
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Try to hardlink a file into a directory, fallback to copy on failure.
+#
+# Hardlink-or-copy the source file in the first argument into the
+# destination directory in the second argument, using the basename in
+# the third argument as basename for the destination file. If the third
+# argument is missing, use the basename of the source file as basename
+# for the destination file.
+#
+# In either case, remove the destination prior to doing the
+# hardlink-or-copy.
+#
+# Note that this is NOT an atomic operation.
+
+set -e
+
+main() {
+    local src_file="${1}"
+    local dst_dir="${2}"
+    local dst_file="${3}"
+
+    if [ -n "${dst_file}" ]; then
+        dst_file="${dst_dir}/${dst_file}"
+    else
+        dst_file="${dst_dir}/${src_file##*/}"
+    fi
+
+    mkdir -p "${dst_dir}"
+    rm -f "${dst_file}"
+    ln -f "${src_file}" "${dst_file}" 2>/dev/null \
+    || cp -f "${src_file}" "${dst_file}"
+}
+
+main "${@}"
diff --git a/support/scripts/pycompile.py b/support/scripts/pycompile.py
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+++ 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)