From bb097166b520a1d86bc5e0a8ded7152ca698e7b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jay <jay-johnson@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 11:18:49 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] build.sh hints for errors related to: Cannot find XGBoost
 Library in the candidate path, did you install compilers and run build.sh in
 root path? (#2229)

* provide hints on how to build this on linux if a new user just clones the repository and is looking for help.

* add the recursive command example
---
 build.sh | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)

diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
index fd8fc0d5edb1..349e7be7e147 100755
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -10,6 +10,36 @@ set -e
 if make; then
     echo "Successfully build multi-thread xgboost"
 else
+
+    not_ready=0
+
+    if [[ ! -e ./rabit/Makefile ]]; then
+        echo ""
+        echo "Please clone the rabit repository into this directory."
+        echo "Here are the commands:"
+        echo "rm -rf rabit"
+        echo "git clone https://github.com/dmlc/rabit.git rabit"
+        not_ready=1
+    fi
+    
+    if [[ ! -e ./dmlc-core/Makefile ]]; then
+        echo ""
+        echo "Please clone the dmlc-core repository into this directory."
+        echo "Here are the commands:"
+        echo "rm -rf dmlc-core"
+        echo "git clone https://github.com/dmlc/dmlc-core.git dmlc-core"
+        not_ready=1
+    fi
+
+    if [[ "${not_ready}" == "1" ]]; then
+        echo ""
+        echo "Please fix the errors above and retry the build or reclone the repository with:"
+        echo "git clone --recursive https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost.git"
+        echo ""
+        exit 1
+    fi
+
+
     echo "-----------------------------"
     echo "Building multi-thread xgboost failed"
     echo "Start to build single-thread xgboost"