diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 2b15764..e3d1b02 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ jobs:
           export R_HOME="$(R RHOME)"
           echo "R_HOME=$R_HOME"
           JULIA_PKG_PRECOMPILE_AUTO=0 julia --project=test/oracle -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.develop(path="."); Pkg.instantiate()'
+          shopt -s nullglob  # no build.log is not an error
           for l in ~/.julia/scratchspaces/*/*/build.log; do echo "== $l"; cat "$l"; done
           julia --project=test/oracle -e 'using RCall; println(rcopy(R"R.version.string"))'
           julia --project=test/oracle -e 'using CompositionalDA, RCall; @assert Base.get_extension(CompositionalDA, :CompositionalDARCallExt) !== nothing; println("extension loaded")'