Catch format configuration parse error
diff --git a/mesonbuild/mformat.py b/mesonbuild/mformat.py
index 49ece4f..68c9a1f 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/mformat.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/mformat.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
import argparse
import re
import typing as T
-from configparser import ConfigParser, MissingSectionHeaderError
+from configparser import ConfigParser, MissingSectionHeaderError, ParsingError
from copy import deepcopy
from dataclasses import dataclass, field, fields, asdict
from pathlib import Path
@@ -829,7 +829,10 @@
config = FormatterConfig()
if configuration_file:
cp = DefaultConfigParser()
- cp.read_default(configuration_file)
+ try:
+ cp.read_default(configuration_file)
+ except ParsingError as e:
+ raise MesonException(f'Unable to parse configuration file "{configuration_file}":\n{e}') from e
for f in fields(config):
getter = f.metadata['getter']
