Treat "Circular dependency...dropped" as a hard error instead?

[JZB]

I have a GNU make-based build system wherein I would like for any/all 
GNU make-detected circular dependencies to be treated as a hard error, 
i.e., fail [immediately], rather than a "dropped and we go on without 
it..." situation.

Is there a way to do this already?

I do NOT suggest to change default behaviour, as there are likely an 
uncountably-infinite number projects that accept/depend on current 
behaviour, but perhaps a command line option or a ".CIRCULARERROR:" rule 
or some way to allow this to be turned on by those who need it?

In my case, a circular dependency is a coding error in the Makefile's by 
the build-engineer, and I don't want it to slide by...

Thanks,
jzb