From 83459829f24624e3cee20a7199af5c69e9678b69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 10:44:52 +0200
Subject: Suggest override variable (config.x) when tool is not found

---
 build2/cli/init.cxx | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'build2/cli')

diff --git a/build2/cli/init.cxx b/build2/cli/init.cxx
index 4ad8a1a..bad2533 100644
--- a/build2/cli/init.cxx
+++ b/build2/cli/init.cxx
@@ -150,7 +150,8 @@ namespace build2
               else
               {
                 if (!optional)
-                  fail << cli << " is not command line interface compiler";
+                  fail << cli << " is not command line interface compiler" <<
+                    info << "use config.cli to override";
 
                 v.clear ();
               }
@@ -178,7 +179,8 @@ namespace build2
             // found). So it would be good to redirect child's STDERR.
             //
             if (!optional)
-              error << "unable to execute " << args[0] << ": " << e;
+              error << "unable to execute " << args[0] << ": " << e <<
+                info << "use config.cli to override";
 
             if (e.child)
               exit (1);
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