Proper exit code for buildout generated scripts

published 2010-09-24 15:30:00

I recently ran into the issue that our Hudson installation didn't report test failures. After digging for a bit, I discovered, that scripts installed by zc.recipe.egg don't return the exit code for some cases. There is a bugreport at https://bugs.launchpad.net/zc.buildout/+bug/164629. In our case the generated coverage script depended on this and because the sys.exit was missing, the test failures were masked.

The following is a way to fix this in your buildouts now until it's fixed in zc.buildout:

[buildout]
extensions = buildout.extensionscripts
extension-scripts =
    ${buildout:directory}/src/buildout-utils.py:patchScriptGeneration

The patchScriptGeneration function in src/buildout-utils.py looks like this:

def patchScriptGeneration(buildout):
    from zc.buildout import easy_install
    if not 'sys.exit(' in easy_install.script_template:
        easy_install.script_template = easy_install.script_template.replace(
            "%(module_name)s.%(attrs)s(%(arguments)s)",
            "sys.exit(%(module_name)s.%(attrs)s(%(arguments)s))")