--- /usr/bin/makepkg	2006-02-02 18:40:57.000000000 -0500
+++ makepkg	2006-10-15 15:30:19.000000000 -0400
@@ -772,7 +772,15 @@
 else
 	cmd="tar czvf $PKGDEST/$pkgname-$pkgver-$pkgrel.pkg.tar.gz .PKGINFO .FILELIST *"
 fi
-$cmd | sort >../filelist
+$cmd > ../filelist2
+cmdResponse=$?
+cat ../filelist2 | sort > ../filelist
+rm ../filelist2
+
+if [ $cmdResponse -ne 0 ]; then
+    error "Compression failed."
+    exit $cmdResponse
+fi
 
 cd $startdir
 if [ "$CLEANUP" = "1" ]; then