diff --git lib/ansible/template/__init__.py lib/ansible/template/__init__.py
index 0894022fbb..d53fd0d672 100644
--- lib/ansible/template/__init__.py
+++ lib/ansible/template/__init__.py
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ class AnsibleContext(Context):
         self._update_unsafe(val)
         return val

-
+import sys
 class AnsibleEnvironment(Environment):
     '''
     Our custom environment, which simply allows us to override the class-level
@@ -214,6 +214,19 @@ class AnsibleEnvironment(Environment):
     context_class = AnsibleContext
     template_class = AnsibleJ2Template

+    def _compile(self, source, filename):
+        # ansible at least seems picky if stdout gets junk, so stderr.
+        # of course, logging would be even better
+
+        import traceback
+        tbl = traceback.format_stack()
+        sys.stderr.write('\n')
+        sys.stderr.write(''.join(tbl))
+        sys.stderr.write('source for %s\n' % filename)
+        sys.stderr.write('%s\n\n' % source)
+
+        return compile(source, filename, 'exec')
+