GNU Makefile equivalent of shell 'TRAP' command for concise identification of build failure on exit?

When you want make to abort at the first failure, end immediately and kill all in-flight jobs instead of waiting for them to finish, you need to patch GNU Make like this http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2009-01/msg00035.html.

The only way I see is self-execution with a sub-make.

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