equivalent of pipefail in GNU make?

Question

Say I have the following files:

buggy_program:

#!/bin/sh
echo \"wops, some bug made me exit with failure\"
exit 1

Makefile:

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Answer 1

You could do:

SHELL=/bin/bash

.DELETE_ON_ERROR:
file.gz:
    set -o pipefail; buggy_program | gzip -9 -c >$@

but this only work with bash.