diff --git a/scripts/strip.sh b/scripts/strip.sh
index 8f89a92..d184a97 100755
--- a/scripts/strip.sh
+++ b/scripts/strip.sh
@@ -71,12 +71,13 @@
 
 do_strip_keep_mini_debug_info() {
     rm -f "${outfile}.dynsyms" "${outfile}.funcsyms" "${outfile}.keep_symbols" "${outfile}.debug" "${outfile}.mini_debuginfo" "${outfile}.mini_debuginfo.xz"
+    local fail=
     if [ ! -z "${use_llvm_strip}" ]; then
-        "${CLANG_BIN}/llvm-strip" --strip-all -keep=.ARM.attributes -remove-section=.comment "${infile}" "${outfile}.tmp"
+        "${CLANG_BIN}/llvm-strip" --strip-all -keep=.ARM.attributes -remove-section=.comment "${infile}" "${outfile}.tmp" || fail=true
     else
-        "${CROSS_COMPILE}strip" --strip-all -R .comment "${infile}" -o "${outfile}.tmp"
+        "${CROSS_COMPILE}strip" --strip-all -R .comment "${infile}" -o "${outfile}.tmp" || fail=true
     fi
-    if [ "$?" == "0" ]; then
+    if [ -z $fail ]; then
         # Current prebult llvm-objcopy does not support the following flags:
         #    --only-keep-debug --rename-section --keep-symbols
         # For the following use cases, ${CROSS_COMPILE}objcopy does fine with lld linked files,