From 8e04ae917f013f3944114fddd1286dfea86a010a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Billy <1184136+philtyl@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:07:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Improve missing mips-linux-gnu error message (#1497)

* Improve error message and match up with https://github.com/zeldaret/mm/pull/1173

* Update Makefile

More descriptive error messaging

Co-authored-by: Dragorn421 <Dragorn421@users.noreply.github.com>

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Co-authored-by: Dragorn421 <Dragorn421@users.noreply.github.com>
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 Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index c5723d90eb..a645ae3109 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ N_THREADS ?= $(shell nproc)
 
 #### Tools ####
 ifneq ($(shell type $(MIPS_BINUTILS_PREFIX)ld >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; echo $$?), 0)
-  $(error Please install or build $(MIPS_BINUTILS_PREFIX))
+  $(error Unable to find $(MIPS_BINUTILS_PREFIX)ld. Please install or build MIPS binutils, commonly mips-linux-gnu. (or set MIPS_BINUTILS_PREFIX if your MIPS binutils install uses another prefix))
 endif
 
 # Detect compiler and set variables appropriately.