Bug? Anchor tags throw mclog error: missing linked source

[Zanderxo]

I am using madbuild.exe (version 15.0.7081.30245) to create PDF targets.

For HTML anchor tags whose href destinations are not valid (for example: <a href="url placeholder">url placeholder</a>), the build log displays:

...
Processing topic: Discovery.htm
Missing linked source file: c:\pforce\training\classroom\main\Content\Server\Comprehensive\Topics\url placeholder
...

Is this by design? Is there a run-time flag one can use to turn this "feature" off?
Many thanks!

Zander

[doc_guy]

It is by design. If you have a broken link, you may want to know about it.

However, you can turn this off at the user-level (in MadCap Flare preferences), or at the target level:

[Zanderxo]

Thanks for the tips.
I tried both methods, and madbuild.exe still exits with the same error.

PS Here's what I had in the Target:

...
UseLocalBuildSettings='true'
IgnoredCompilerWarnings='20041,20040,20039,20038,20037,20036,20035,20034,20033,20032,40017'>
...