Bypass Cached Failure

When evaluating a nix expression, sometimes you get a failure. But then, on next evaluation, you get this error message:

$ nix build .#checks.x86_64-linux.modules
error: cached failure of attribute 'checks.x86_64-linux.modules'

The failure got cached! How do you see the error message again? By adding --option eval-cache false:

$ nix build .#checks.x86_64-linux.modules --option eval-cache false
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