Previously, when `ngcc` encountered an entry-point with a format-path
that pointed to a non-existing or empty file it would throw an error and
stop processing the remaining tasks.
In the past, we used to ignore such format-paths and continue processing
the rest of the tasks ([see code][1]). This was changed to a hard
failure in 2954d1b5ca. Looking at the code
history, the reason for changing the behavior was an (incorrect)
assumption that the condition could not fail. This assumption failed to
take into account the case where a 3rd-party library has an invalid
format-path in its `package.json`. This is an issue with the library,
but it should not prevent `ngcc` from processing other
packages/entry-points/formats.
This commit fixes this by reporting the task as failed but not throwing
an error, thus allowing `ngcc` to continue processing other tasks.
[1]: https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/3077c9a1f89c5bd75fb96c16e/packages/compiler-cli/ngcc/src/main.ts#L124Fixes#40965
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