diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 814be151f4..d5e6d50e6d 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ before_install:
   - wget -O - http://people.linaro.org/~alex.bennee/qemu-submodule-git-seed.tar.xz | tar -xvJ
   - git submodule update --init --recursive
 before_script:
-  - ./configure ${CONFIG}
+  - ./configure ${CONFIG} || { cat config.log && exit 1; }
 script:
   - make ${MAKEFLAGS} && ${TEST_CMD}
 matrix:
@@ -151,4 +151,4 @@ matrix:
         - CONFIG="--cc=gcc-7 --cxx=g++-7 --disable-pie --disable-linux-user"
         - TEST_CMD=""
       before_script:
-        - ./configure ${CONFIG} --extra-cflags="-g3 -O0 -fsanitize=thread -fuse-ld=gold" || cat config.log
+        - ./configure ${CONFIG} --extra-cflags="-g3 -O0 -fsanitize=thread -fuse-ld=gold" || { cat config.log && exit 1; }