Re: [PATCH RFC] kbuild: enable pipefail for commands where possible

[Nathan Chancellor]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2026 at 12:15:18PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> It actually breaks modversions quite badly. And it is not obvious to debug

Welp, good to know I wasn't very far off with that review comment :)

> as that uses the pipe in an `if` statement which swallows the 141 silently.

Ah yeah, great point.

> Not sure what to do here.
> 
> Maybe we just provide `try-pipefail` so users can opt-in where it makes sense.

Yeah, that seems like a much more reasonable starting point, as
something like this should likely be considered on a case-by-case basis
anyways.

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Cheers,
Nathan