diff --git a/cvscompile b/cvscompile
index 62995d56..141734e7 100644
--- a/cvscompile
+++ b/cvscompile
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ autoconf
 export CFLAGS='-O2 -Wall -W -pipe -g'
 echo "CFLAGS=$CFLAGS"
 echo "./configure $@"
-./configure $@
+./configure $@ || exit 1
 unset CFLAGS
 if [ -z "$CVSCOMPILE_NO_MAKE" ]; then
   make