diff --git a/.travis_do.sh b/.travis_do.sh
index af82262f50..2fcb8923f5 100755
--- a/.travis_do.sh
+++ b/.travis_do.sh
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ EOF
 
 		# we can't enable verbose built else we often hit Travis limits
 		# on log size and the job get killed
-		exec_status '^ERROR' make "package/$pkg_name/compile" -j3
+		exec_status '^ERROR' make "package/$pkg_name/compile" -j3 || RET=1
 
 		echo_blue "=== $pkg_name: compile test done"