Follow-up Comment #2, bug #62840 (project make): Just for completeness or academic interest, then, this makes it happen reliably for me:
set -o pipefail; { ruby -we '$stdout.write("x" * 4096)'; make --version; } | head -n1; echo $? That behaved the same all the way back to make-3.81. This was the first command I found that behaved like make --version: set -o pipefail; { ruby -we '$stdout.write("x" * 4096)'; tar --help; } | head -n1; echo $? _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62840> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/