Is there a pipefail equivalent for dash?

I have a perl script that runs a system() call to execute shell commands and I would like to run more than one command and pipe data between them. Something like (in perl):

system("command1 | command2");

Perl's system() uses /bin/sh and since these are running on an Ubuntu Server system, /bin/sh is dash. Like many other shells, the exit value of a pipeline in dash is the exit value of the right-most command. This means that something like this will return 0 (success):

system("false | true")

If I were on a system whose /bin/sh were bash, I could fix it easily by adding the pipefail option:

system("set -o pipefail; false | true");

Indeed, this works as expected on my local Arch system whose /bin/sh points to bash:

$ perl -le '$status = system("false | true"); print $status>>8'
0
$ perl -le '$status = system("set -o pipefail; false | true"); print $status>>8'
1

(Yes, I know this looks weird, but if you don't know Perl, just take my word for it: we need to shift by 8 to get the actual exit status) However, since the machine it is supposed to run on has dash, the same thing fails:

$ perl -le '$status = system("set -o pipefail; false | true"); print $status>>8'
sh: 1: set: Illegal option -o pipefail
2

Using set -e is also not a solution:

$ perl -le '$status = system("set -e; false | true"); print $status>>8'
0

I can think of some Perl workarounds, such as not piping or using the IPC::System::Simple module, but I was hoping there might be a simpler way to do this directly in dash. So, is there some trick, hack or option that lets me tell dash that the exit status of a set of piped commands should only be 0 (success) if _all_ commands worked and should be non-0 if any of them failed the way that set -o pipefail works in bash?