diff --git a/pkgs/tinyxlib b/pkgs/tinyxlib
index d446898..2ae1680 100644
--- a/pkgs/tinyxlib
+++ b/pkgs/tinyxlib
@@ -14,12 +14,12 @@ build() {
 	cd src/tinyxlib
 	make clean
 	make CC=x86_64-linux-musl-gcc BINDIR="/bin" LIBDIR="/lib" STATIC=1 \
-		FONT_ENCODINGS_DIRECTORY="/usr/share/fonts/encodings/encodings.dir"
+		FONT_ENCODINGS_DIRECTORY="/usr/share/fonts/encodings/encodings.dir" || return 1
 	cd -
 }
 
 install() {
 	cd src/tinyxlib
-	make DESTDIR="$libcroot" BINDIR="/bin" LIBDIR="/lib" STATIC=1 install
+	make DESTDIR="$libcroot" BINDIR="/bin" LIBDIR="/lib" STATIC=1 install || return 1
 	cd -
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/tinyxserver b/pkgs/tinyxserver
index d68b6fa..f1a56ec 100644
--- a/pkgs/tinyxserver
+++ b/pkgs/tinyxserver
@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ build() {
 	make clean
 	make CC=x86_64-linux-musl-gcc EXTRA_CFLAGS="-D_XSERVER64=1 -I$libcroot/include" \
 		LDFLAGS="-static -L$libcroot/lib" \
-		FONTDIR="/usr/share/fonts"
+		FONTDIR="/usr/share/fonts" || return 1
 	cd -
 }
 
 install() {
 	cd src/tinyxserver
-	make DESTDIR="$root" BINDIR="/bin" install
+	make DESTDIR="$root" BINDIR="/bin" install || return 1
 	cd -
 	cd $root/usr/share/fonts/misc
 	mkfontscale
diff --git a/pkgs/uuterm b/pkgs/uuterm
index eb5ca24..2dfda90 100644
--- a/pkgs/uuterm
+++ b/pkgs/uuterm
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ unpack() {
 
 build() {
 	cd src/uuterm
-	make CC=x86_64-linux-musl-gcc LDFLAGS_X11="-L$libcroot/lib -static" uuterm-x11
+	make CC=x86_64-linux-musl-gcc LDFLAGS_X11="-L$libcroot/lib -static" uuterm-x11 || return 1
 	cd -
 }