tweaked external program code

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/cpp/RPMTools.py b/cpp/RPMTools.py
index fa4441cf2b8..d7798eefa6e 100644
--- a/cpp/RPMTools.py
+++ b/cpp/RPMTools.py
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ class Package:
 	ofile.write('%clean\n')
 	ofile.write('\n')
 	ofile.write('%changelog\n')
-	ofile.write('* Tue Mar 8 2005 ZeroC Staff\n')
+	ofile.write('* Tue Nov 15 2005 ZeroC Staff\n')
 	ofile.write('- See source distributions or the ZeroC website for more information\n')
 	ofile.write('  about the changes in this release\n') 
 	ofile.write('\n')
diff --git a/cpp/makebindist.py b/cpp/makebindist.py
index 7a9cb484945..ea6b8db4a59 100755
--- a/cpp/makebindist.py
+++ b/cpp/makebindist.py
@@ -28,10 +28,11 @@ class ExtProgramError:
     def __str__(self):
 	return repr(self.msg)
 
-def runprog(commandstring):
-    commandtuple = commandstring.split()
-    result = os.spawnvpe(os.P_WAIT, commandtuple[0], commandtuple, os.environ)
-    if result != 0:
+def runprog(commandstring, haltOnError = True):
+    #commandtuple = commandstring.split()
+    #result = os.spawnvpe(os.P_WAIT, commandtuple[0], commandtuple, os.environ)
+    result = os.system(commandstring)
+    if result != 0 and haltOnError:
 	msg = 'Command %s failed with error code %d' % (commandstring, result)
 	raise ExtProgramError(msg)