From 6928a336852688755f94e2b868c48c502644f766 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will Anderson <will.anderson@neurontechnologies.ai>
Date: Thu, 7 May 2026 10:31:49 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] ci: force line-buffered stdout on elb to prevent output loss
 on failure

---
 .gitea/workflows/dev.yaml | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/dev.yaml b/.gitea/workflows/dev.yaml
index 3cc6377..b903aa2 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/dev.yaml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/dev.yaml
@@ -123,10 +123,11 @@ jobs:
           echo "=== manifest ==="
           cat manifest.el
           echo "=== running elb ==="
-          "$ELB" \
+          # stdbuf -oL forces line-buffered stdout so output isn't lost if elb fails.
+          # Without it, println output buffers in the C pipe and evaporates on non-zero exit.
+          stdbuf -oL "$ELB" \
             --elc="$ELC" \
             --runtime="$EL_RUNTIME"
-          echo "elb exit: $?"
           echo "Binary: $(ls -lh dist/neuron-landing)"
 
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