On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 10:55 PM John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 1) Provide a better error message for the "Rust not available" case. > Without this patch, one gets various misleading messages, such as: > > "No rule to make target 'rust-analyzer'" > > Instead, run scripts/rust_is_available.sh directly, as a prerequisite, > and let that script report the cause of any problems, as well as > providing a link to the documentation. Thanks to Miguel Ojeda for the > idea of just letting rust_is_available.sh report its results directly. > > The new output in the failure case looks like this: > > $ make rust-analyzer > *** > *** Rust compiler 'rustc' could not be found. > *** > *** > *** Please see Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst for details > *** on how to set up the Rust support. > *** > make[1]: *** [/kernel_work/linux-github/Makefile:1975: rust-analyzer] Error 1 > make: *** [Makefile:240: __sub-make] Error 2 > > Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@xxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@xxxxxxxxxx>
