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  r1689 | stevenknight | 2006-11-06 20:56:29 -0600 (Mon, 06 Nov 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D483 - Merge changes for 0.96.93 packaging from the subsidiary branch.
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  r1690 | stevenknight | 2006-11-06 20:59:30 -0600 (Mon, 06 Nov 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D484 - Update HOWTO for releases. Fix name type in src/CHANGES.txt.
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  r1691 | stevenknight | 2006-11-08 13:55:36 -0600 (Wed, 08 Nov 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D485 - Fix MergeFlags() handling of None values. (John Pye)
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  r1692 | stevenknight | 2006-11-08 17:15:05 -0600 (Wed, 08 Nov 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D486 - Directly execute commands on Windows when possible. (Jay Kint)
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  r1693 | stevenknight | 2006-11-08 18:54:49 -0600 (Wed, 08 Nov 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D487 - Remove the semi-colon from the list of characters that determine when we use cmd
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  r1694 | stevenknight | 2006-11-09 01:34:06 -0600 (Thu, 09 Nov 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D488 - Pick up latex/bibtex 'Rerun to get citations correct' messages. (Dmitry Mikhin)
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  r1695 | stevenknight | 2006-11-11 08:36:33 -0600 (Sat, 11 Nov 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D489 - Back out the direct-execution-on-Windows change until we solve a corner case.
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  r1696 | stevenknight | 2006-11-15 10:33:10 -0600 (Wed, 15 Nov 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D490 - Fix the sconsign script when the .sconsign.dblite file is specified with its suf
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  r1697 | stevenknight | 2006-11-18 10:45:50 -0600 (Sat, 18 Nov 2006) | 4 lines

  Complete move of test/sconsign/script.py to underneath test/sconsign/script/.
  (This got left out of the previous checkin due to an error in the
  script that resubmits Aegis changes to Subversion.)
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  r1698 | stevenknight | 2006-11-18 11:05:26 -0600 (Sat, 18 Nov 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D491 - Allow an Options converter to take the construction environment as a parameter.
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  r1699 | stevenknight | 2006-11-30 15:34:37 -0600 (Thu, 30 Nov 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D492 - Reverse the order in which we try the arguments Options converters, first a sing
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  r1700 | stevenknight | 2006-11-30 16:03:09 -0600 (Thu, 30 Nov 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D493 - Speed up rel_path() by avoiding recomputation of intermediate directory relative
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  r1701 | stevenknight | 2006-11-30 16:14:16 -0600 (Thu, 30 Nov 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D494 - More efficient get_suffix(): compute it once when we set the name.
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  r1702 | stevenknight | 2006-11-30 16:22:55 -0600 (Thu, 30 Nov 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D495 - Fix missing XML end tags.
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  r1703 | stevenknight | 2006-11-30 17:15:25 -0600 (Thu, 30 Nov 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D496 - Turn Memoizer into a simple counter for --debug=memoizer, not something that doe
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  r1704 | stevenknight | 2006-11-30 20:30:50 -0600 (Thu, 30 Nov 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D497 - Add the scons-time script, with doc and tests.
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  r1705 | stevenknight | 2006-11-30 23:28:20 -0600 (Thu, 30 Nov 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D498 - Update the copyright years string.
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  r1706 | stevenknight | 2006-12-01 11:54:22 -0600 (Fri, 01 Dec 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D499 - Fix _do_Lookup => _doLookup value-caching misspellings. (Ben Leslie)
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  r1707 | stevenknight | 2006-12-01 12:03:46 -0600 (Fri, 01 Dec 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D500 - Fix copyright test against debian build. (Walter Franzini)
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  r1708 | stevenknight | 2006-12-01 14:23:29 -0600 (Fri, 01 Dec 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D501 - Add #include lines for test portability. (Gary Oberbrunner)
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  r1709 | stevenknight | 2006-12-01 14:51:12 -0600 (Fri, 01 Dec 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D502 - Fix tests under Python versions with no profiler (pstats module).
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  r1710 | stevenknight | 2006-12-01 20:04:49 -0600 (Fri, 01 Dec 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D503 - Remove unnecessary os.path.normpath() calls. (Gary Oberbrunner)
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  r1711 | stevenknight | 2006-12-01 20:34:31 -0600 (Fri, 01 Dec 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D504 - Accomodate arbitray white space after a SWIG %module keyword. (Anonymous)
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  r1712 | stevenknight | 2006-12-05 14:49:54 -0600 (Tue, 05 Dec 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D506 - Cache substitutions of of Builder source suffixes. Use a new PathList module, and a refactor Node.FS.Rfindalldirs() method, to cache calculations of values like CPPPATH.
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  r1713 | stevenknight | 2006-12-05 18:43:36 -0600 (Tue, 05 Dec 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D507 - Use cached stat() values in diskchecks.
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  r1714 | stevenknight | 2006-12-05 21:11:24 -0600 (Tue, 05 Dec 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D508 - Fix Memoizer hit counts for methods memoizing simple values. Clean up the code for memoizing return values in a dictionary. Fix comments.
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  r1715 | stevenknight | 2006-12-06 07:23:18 -0600 (Wed, 06 Dec 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D369 - More efficient Node.FS.Dir.current() check. Fix some Windows test portability issues.
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  r1716 | stevenknight | 2006-12-06 12:24:32 -0600 (Wed, 06 Dec 2006) | 2 lines

  Undo previous checkin (distributed incorrect Aegis change number).
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  r1717 | stevenknight | 2006-12-06 12:34:53 -0600 (Wed, 06 Dec 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D505 - Update ae-{cvs,svn}-ci for newer versions of aetar, and to not truncate descriptions.
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  r1718 | stevenknight | 2006-12-07 23:01:41 -0600 (Thu, 07 Dec 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D509 - Only look for mslink on Windows systems. (Sohail Somani)
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  r1719 | stevenknight | 2006-12-07 23:18:33 -0600 (Thu, 07 Dec 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D510 - Have the D compiler Tool use the same  logic for shared libraries, too. (Paolo Invernizzi)
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  r1720 | stevenknight | 2006-12-07 23:29:47 -0600 (Thu, 07 Dec 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D511 - Generalize a JobTests.py test so it doesn't assume a specific order in which the operating system executes the threads.
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  r1721 | stevenknight | 2006-12-07 23:39:37 -0600 (Thu, 07 Dec 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D512 - Back out the Tool/dmd.py  change; it breaks shared library linking for other lanuages beside D in the construction environment.
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  r1722 | stevenknight | 2006-12-07 23:47:11 -0600 (Thu, 07 Dec 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D513 - Test fixes: Windows portability, handle changes to Python 2.5 messages.
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  r1723 | stevenknight | 2006-12-08 00:00:13 -0600 (Fri, 08 Dec 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D514 - Change how the 'as' Tool is imported to accomodate the Python 2.6 'as' keyword.
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  r1724 | stevenknight | 2006-12-08 11:19:27 -0600 (Fri, 08 Dec 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D515 - Cache both Node.FS.find_file() and Node.FS.Dri.srcdir_find_file().
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  r1725 | stevenknight | 2006-12-08 17:27:35 -0600 (Fri, 08 Dec 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D516 - Better error when we try to fetch contents from an Entry that doesn't exist. (Tom Parker)
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  r1726 | stevenknight | 2006-12-08 23:28:55 -0600 (Fri, 08 Dec 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D517 - Make sure we pick up the scons-local directory regardless of where we chdir internally.
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  r1727 | stevenknight | 2006-12-11 16:25:53 -0600 (Mon, 11 Dec 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D518 - Cache results of Executor.get_unignored_sources() and Executor.process_sources(). Eliminate some map() and disambiguate() calls when scanning for implicit dependencies.
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  r1728 | stevenknight | 2006-12-12 14:32:22 -0600 (Tue, 12 Dec 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D519 - Fix SideEffect() when -j is used.
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  r1729 | stevenknight | 2006-12-12 16:58:15 -0600 (Tue, 12 Dec 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D520 - Add a srcdir keyword to Builder calls.
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  r1730 | stevenknight | 2006-12-12 21:40:59 -0600 (Tue, 12 Dec 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D521 - TeX/LaTeX updates, including handling files in subdirectories. (Joel B. Mohler, Rob Managan, Dmitry Mikhin)
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  r1731 | stevenknight | 2006-12-14 15:01:02 -0600 (Thu, 14 Dec 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D522 - Propogate TypeErrors during variable substitution for display to the user.
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  r1732 | stevenknight | 2006-12-14 20:01:49 -0600 (Thu, 14 Dec 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D523 - Fix the os.path.join() calls in EnvironmentTests.py.
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  r1733 | stevenknight | 2006-12-15 07:48:22 -0600 (Fri, 15 Dec 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D524 - Fix source directories as dependencies of an Alias (0.96.93 problem found by LilyPond).
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  r1735 | stevenknight | 2006-12-15 12:43:45 -0600 (Fri, 15 Dec 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D525 - Allow printing Debug.caller() output (or other end-of-run debugging info) when using -h.
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  r1736 | stevenknight | 2006-12-15 16:30:08 -0600 (Fri, 15 Dec 2006) | 1 line

  0.96.D526 - Add an option to debug IndexError and NameError exceptions during variable substitution.
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diff --git a/test/Errors/AttributeError.py b/test/Errors/AttributeError.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..637cccfc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/Errors/AttributeError.py
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+#
+# __COPYRIGHT__
+#
+# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+# a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+# "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+# without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+# distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+# permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+# the following conditions:
+#
+# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
+# in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+#
+# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
+# KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE
+# WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+# NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
+# LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
+# OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+# WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+#
+
+__revision__ = "__FILE__ __REVISION__ __DATE__ __DEVELOPER__"
+
+"""
+Verify the exit status and error output if an SConstruct file
+throws an AttributeError.
+"""
+
+import TestSCons
+
+test = TestSCons.TestSCons(match = TestSCons.match_re_dotall)
+
+test.write('SConstruct', """\
+a = 1
+a.append(2)
+""")
+
+test.run(status = 2, stderr = """\
+(AttributeError|<type 'exceptions\.AttributeError'>): 'int' object has no attribute 'append':
+  File ".+SConstruct", line 2:
+    a.append\(2\)
+""")
+
+test.pass_test()
diff --git a/test/Errors/Exception.py b/test/Errors/Exception.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..710c8197
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/Errors/Exception.py
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+#
+# __COPYRIGHT__
+#
+# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+# a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+# "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+# without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+# distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+# permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+# the following conditions:
+#
+# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
+# in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+#
+# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
+# KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE
+# WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+# NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
+# LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
+# OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+# WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+#
+
+__revision__ = "__FILE__ __REVISION__ __DATE__ __DEVELOPER__"
+
+import string
+
+import TestSCons
+
+test = TestSCons.TestSCons(match = TestSCons.match_re_dotall)
+
+test.write('SConstruct', """\
+def foo(env, target, source):
+    print str(target[0])
+    open(str(target[0]), 'wt').write('foo')
+
+def exit(env, target, source):
+    raise Exception('exit')
+
+env = Environment(BUILDERS = { 'foo'  : Builder(action=foo),
+                               'exit' : Builder(action=exit) })
+
+env.foo('foo.out', 'foo.in')
+env.exit('exit.out', 'exit.in')
+""")
+
+test.write('foo.in', 'foo\n')
+
+test.write('exit.in', 'exit\n')
+
+# print_exception doesn't always show a source line if the source file
+# no longer exists or that line in the source file no longer exists,
+# so make sure the proper variations are supported in the following
+# regexp.
+expect = """scons: \*\*\* \[exit.out\] Exception
+Traceback \((most recent call|innermost) last\):
+(  File ".+", line \d+, in \S+
+    [^\n]+
+)*(  File ".+", line \d+, in \S+
+)*(  File ".+", line \d+, in \S+
+    [^\n]+
+)*\S.+
+"""
+
+# Build foo.out first, and expect an error when we try to build exit.out.
+test.run(arguments='foo.out exit.out', stderr=expect, status=2)
+
+# Rebuild.  foo.out should be up to date, and we should get the
+# expected error building exit.out.
+test.run(arguments='foo.out exit.out', stderr=expect, status=2)
+
+stdout = test.stdout()
+
+expect = "scons: `foo.out' is up to date."
+
+if string.find(stdout, expect) == -1:
+    print "Did not find expected string %s" % repr(expect)
+    print "STDOUT ======================================================="
+    print stdout
+    test.fail_test()
+
+test.pass_test()
diff --git a/test/Errors/InternalError.py b/test/Errors/InternalError.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e90d4026
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/Errors/InternalError.py
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+#
+# __COPYRIGHT__
+#
+# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+# a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+# "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+# without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+# distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+# permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+# the following conditions:
+#
+# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
+# in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+#
+# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
+# KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE
+# WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+# NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
+# LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
+# OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+# WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+#
+
+__revision__ = "__FILE__ __REVISION__ __DATE__ __DEVELOPER__"
+
+"""
+Verify the exit status and error output if an SConstruct file
+throws an InternalError.
+"""
+
+import TestSCons
+
+test = TestSCons.TestSCons(match = TestSCons.match_re_dotall)
+
+# Test InternalError.
+test.write('SConstruct', """
+assert not globals().has_key("InternalError")
+from SCons.Errors import InternalError
+raise InternalError, 'error inside'
+""")
+
+test.run(stdout = "scons: Reading SConscript files ...\ninternal error\n",
+         stderr = r"""Traceback \((most recent call|innermost) last\):
+  File ".+", line \d+, in .+
+  File ".+", line \d+, in .+
+  File ".+", line \d+, in .+
+  File ".+SConstruct", line \d+, in .+
+    raise InternalError, 'error inside'
+InternalError: error inside
+""", status=2)
+
+test.pass_test()
diff --git a/test/Errors/NameError.py b/test/Errors/NameError.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..be69b507
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/Errors/NameError.py
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+#
+# __COPYRIGHT__
+#
+# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+# a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+# "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+# without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+# distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+# permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+# the following conditions:
+#
+# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
+# in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+#
+# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
+# KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE
+# WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+# NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
+# LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
+# OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+# WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+#
+
+__revision__ = "__FILE__ __REVISION__ __DATE__ __DEVELOPER__"
+
+"""
+Verify the exit status and error output if an SConstruct file
+throws a NameError (tries to reference a Python variable that
+doesn't exist).
+"""
+
+import TestSCons
+
+test = TestSCons.TestSCons(match = TestSCons.match_re_dotall)
+
+test.write('SConstruct', """\
+a == 1
+""")
+
+test.run(status = 2, stderr = """\
+NameError: [^\n]*
+  File ".+SConstruct", line 1:
+    a == 1
+""")
+
+test.pass_test()
diff --git a/test/Errors/SyntaxError.py b/test/Errors/SyntaxError.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b9ff1ffd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/Errors/SyntaxError.py
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+#
+# __COPYRIGHT__
+#
+# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+# a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+# "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+# without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+# distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+# permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+# the following conditions:
+#
+# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
+# in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+#
+# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
+# KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE
+# WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+# NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
+# LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
+# OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+# WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+#
+
+__revision__ = "__FILE__ __REVISION__ __DATE__ __DEVELOPER__"
+
+"""
+Verify the exit status and error output if an SConstruct file
+throws a SyntaxError (contains improper Python code).
+"""
+
+import TestSCons
+
+test = TestSCons.TestSCons(match = TestSCons.match_re_dotall)
+
+test.write('SConstruct', """
+a ! x
+""")
+
+test.run(stdout = "scons: Reading SConscript files ...\n",
+         stderr = """  File ".+SConstruct", line 2
+
+    a ! x
+
+      \^
+
+SyntaxError: invalid syntax
+
+""", status=2)
+
+test.pass_test()
diff --git a/test/Errors/TypeError.py b/test/Errors/TypeError.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1ec14dd8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/Errors/TypeError.py
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+#
+# __COPYRIGHT__
+#
+# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+# a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+# "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+# without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+# distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+# permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+# the following conditions:
+#
+# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
+# in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+#
+# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
+# KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE
+# WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+# NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
+# LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
+# OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+# WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+#
+
+__revision__ = "__FILE__ __REVISION__ __DATE__ __DEVELOPER__"
+
+"""
+Verify the exit status and error output if an SConstruct file
+throws a TypeError.
+"""
+
+import TestSCons
+
+test = TestSCons.TestSCons(match = TestSCons.match_re_dotall)
+
+test.write('SConstruct', """\
+a = 1
+a[2] = 3
+""")
+
+test.run(status = 2, stderr = """\
+TypeError:( 'int')? object does not support item assignment:
+  File ".+SConstruct", line 2:
+    a\[2\] = 3
+""")
+
+test.pass_test()
diff --git a/test/Errors/UserError.py b/test/Errors/UserError.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..69ed7d44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/Errors/UserError.py
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+#
+# __COPYRIGHT__
+#
+# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+# a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+# "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+# without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+# distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+# permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+# the following conditions:
+#
+# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
+# in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+#
+# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
+# KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE
+# WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+# NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
+# LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
+# OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+# WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+#
+
+__revision__ = "__FILE__ __REVISION__ __DATE__ __DEVELOPER__"
+
+"""
+Verify the exit status and error output if an SConstruct file
+throws a UserError.
+"""
+
+import TestSCons
+
+test = TestSCons.TestSCons(match = TestSCons.match_re_dotall)
+
+test.write('SConstruct', """
+assert not globals().has_key("UserError")
+import SCons.Errors
+raise SCons.Errors.UserError, 'Depends() requires both sources and targets.'
+""")
+
+expect = """
+scons: \*\*\* Depends\(\) requires both sources and targets.
+""" + TestSCons.file_expr
+
+test.run(stdout = "scons: Reading SConscript files ...\n",
+         stderr = expect,
+         status=2)
+
+test.pass_test()
diff --git a/test/Errors/exit-status.py b/test/Errors/exit-status.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..946c1c40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/Errors/exit-status.py
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+#
+# __COPYRIGHT__
+#
+# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+# a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+# "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+# without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+# distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+# permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+# the following conditions:
+#
+# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
+# in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+#
+# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
+# KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE
+# WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+# NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
+# LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
+# OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+# WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+#
+
+__revision__ = "__FILE__ __REVISION__ __DATE__ __DEVELOPER__"
+
+"""
+Verify the exit status and error output if an external command throws
+a non-zero exit status.
+"""
+
+import TestSCons
+
+_python_ = TestSCons._python_
+
+test = TestSCons.TestSCons(match = TestSCons.match_re_dotall)
+
+test.write('build.py', '''
+import sys
+sys.exit(7)
+''')
+
+test.write('SConstruct', """
+env=Environment()
+Default(env.Command(['one.out', 'two.out'],
+                    ['foo.in'],
+                    action=r'%(_python_)s build.py'))
+""" % locals())
+
+test.write('foo.in', "foo.in\n")
+
+test.run(status=2, stderr="scons: \\*\\*\\* \\[one.out\\] Error 7\n")
+
+test.pass_test()