diff --git a/src/bootstrap/src/core/sanity.rs b/src/bootstrap/src/core/sanity.rs
index 2e3b913ba95..be8d12feba4 100644
--- a/src/bootstrap/src/core/sanity.rs
+++ b/src/bootstrap/src/core/sanity.rs
@@ -355,7 +355,8 @@ than building it.
             // There are three builds of cmake on windows: MSVC, MinGW, and
             // Cygwin. The Cygwin build does not have generators for Visual
             // Studio, so detect that here and error.
-            let out = command("cmake").arg("--help").run_capture_stdout(build).stdout();
+            let out =
+                command("cmake").arg("--help").run_always().run_capture_stdout(build).stdout();
             if !out.contains("Visual Studio") {
                 panic!(
                     "