[build] Makefile: throw an error when trying to build SHARED library #4718
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[see linked issue for more context]
When asking Makefile to create SHARED library for WEB
it would instead silently create STATIC library thus not fulfilling the request as expected
This commit adds an error in this case and stops further execution which fixes this issue.
This is not consistent with Cmake, because Cmake throws the warning and does not stop, but Cmake can easily recover from this case and people probably does not even notice it. However, Makefile is something that you have to handle yourself and you have to recover from any issues so having an error and aborting with exit code 1 is more expected. Otherwise people may spend a lot of time debugging Makefile in order to understand what's even going on.
Fixes: #4717