#9799: Running "make" in SAGE_ROOT returns the wrong exit code, leading to all
kinds of confusion
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   Reporter:  was       |       Owner:  GeorgSWeber
       Type:  defect    |      Status:  new        
   Priority:  critical  |   Milestone:  sage-4.5.3 
  Component:  build     |    Keywords:             
     Author:            |    Upstream:  N/A        
   Reviewer:            |      Merged:             
Work_issues:            |  
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 This line in SAGE_ROOT/make
 {{{
 cd spkg && ./install all 2>&1 | tee -a ../install.log
 }}}
 will *always* return an exit status of 0, even if the build fails
 miserably.  This leads to much confusion down the line, as explained in
 this sage-devel post:


 The fix is probably to do what is described here:


       http://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/92163-command-does-
 not-return-exit-status-due-tee.html

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9799>
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