diff --git a/scripts/Check-Deps-2 b/scripts/Check-Deps-2
index 2499e53a2..1f6afb9f4 100755
--- a/scripts/Check-Deps-2
+++ b/scripts/Check-Deps-2
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ while ($_ = shift @ARGV) {
 		print "The data from scripts/dep_db.txt and scripts/dep_fixes.txt\n";
 		print "is used for the dependency analysis.\n";
 		print "\n";
+		exit 1;
 	} else {
 		$ign{$_} = 1;
 	}