From a627b4f2bfb3012bd69650ee7defc9ef2ef2ec1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daira Hopwood <daira@jacaranda.org>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 14:27:49 +0100
Subject: [bootstrap] Improve the error message when `ninja` is not found to
 link to installation instructions.

Signed-off-by: Daira Hopwood <daira@jacaranda.org>
---
 src/bootstrap/lib.rs | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src/bootstrap')

diff --git a/src/bootstrap/lib.rs b/src/bootstrap/lib.rs
index a4735d54be0..9302217297b 100644
--- a/src/bootstrap/lib.rs
+++ b/src/bootstrap/lib.rs
@@ -1494,8 +1494,12 @@ impl Build {
             {
                 eprintln!(
                     "
-Couldn't find required command: ninja
-You should install ninja, or set `ninja=false` in config.toml in the `[llvm]` section.
+Couldn't find required command: ninja (or ninja-build)
+
+You should install ninja as described at
+<https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/wiki/Pre-built-Ninja-packages>,
+or set `download-ci-llvm = true` in the `[llvm]` section of `config.toml`
+to download LLVM rather than building it.
 "
                 );
                 std::process::exit(1);
-- 
cgit 1.4.1-3-g733a5