better help text on invalid commands

adding help again is a bad idea. code should never
document itself; that's what documentation is for.

so, make the code do a better job telling the user
where to find documentation.

Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>

4 files changed, 17 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/build b/build
index 44d99507..10982423 100755
--- a/build
+++ b/build
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ linkname="${linkpath##*/}"
 main()
 {
 	x_ id -u 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null
-	[ $# -lt 1 ] && $err "Check $projectname documentation for help."
+	[ $# -lt 1 ] && badcmd
 	spath="script/$1"
 
 	[ "$1" = "dependencies" ] && x_ install_packages $@ && return 0
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ main()
 	inject) shift 1; vendor_inject $@ ;;
 	download) shift 1; vendor_download $@ ;;
 	*)
-		[ -f "$spath" ] || $err "Bad command. Check docs."
+		[ -f "$spath" ] || badcmd
 		shift 1; "$spath" $@ || $err "excmd: $spath $@" ;;
 	esac
 	set -u -e # some commands disable them. turn them on!
@@ -51,8 +51,8 @@ main()
 
 install_packages()
 {
-	[ $# -lt 2 ] && $err "Bad command. Check docs."
-	[ -f "config/dependencies/$2" ] || $err "Unsupported target"
+	[ $# -lt 2 ] && badcmd "fewer than two arguments"
+	[ -f "config/dependencies/$2" ] || badcmd "unsupported target"
 
 	. "config/dependencies/$2"
 
@@ -79,11 +79,11 @@ mkrelease()
 
 	vdir="release"
 	while getopts d:m: option; do
-		[ -z "$OPTARG" ] && $err "Empty argument not allowed"
+		[ -z "$OPTARG" ] && badcmd "empty argument not allowed"
 		case "$option" in
 		d) vdir="$OPTARG" ;;
 		m) mode="$OPTARG" ;;
-		*) $err "Invalid option" ;;
+		*) badcmd "invalid option '-$option'" ;;
 		esac
 	done
 
diff --git a/include/lib.sh b/include/lib.sh
index 1b0f07c1..8d4b7825 100755
--- a/include/lib.sh
+++ b/include/lib.sh
@@ -15,6 +15,15 @@ tmpgit="$PWD/tmp/gitclone"
 grubdata="config/data/grub"
 err="err_"
 
+badcmd()
+{
+	errmsg="no context given"
+	[ $# -gt 0 ] && errmsg="$1"
+
+	dstr="Check $projectname docs via $projectsite"
+	[ -d "docs" ] && dstr="$dstr (local docs available via docs/)"
+	$err "Bad command ($errmsg). $dstr"
+}
 err_()
 {
 	printf "ERROR %s: %s\n" "$0" "$1" 1>&2
diff --git a/script/roms b/script/roms
index 7e5e1be6..ee48bc42 100755
--- a/script/roms
+++ b/script/roms
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ main()
 
 handle_serprog()
 {
-	[ -z "${1+x}" ] && $err "bad command. Check $projectname docs."
+	[ -z "${1+x}" ] && badcmd
 	[ "$1" != "rp2040" ] && [ "$1" != "stm32" ] && $err "bad command"
 	if [ "$1" = "rp2040" ]; then
 		serprog_boards_dir="$picosdk/src/boards/include/boards"
diff --git a/script/trees b/script/trees
index 1075b220..e22467f7 100755
--- a/script/trees
+++ b/script/trees
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ main()
 		-s) mode="savedefconfig" ;;
 		-l) mode="olddefconfig" ;;
 		-n) mode="nconfig" ;;
-		*) $err "Invalid option" ;;
+		*) badcmd "invalid option '-$option'" ;;
 		esac
 		shift; project="${OPTARG#src/}"; shift
 	done