From 8faf2720108d29baa297758977f743a65e241b43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@levkowetz.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 10:25:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added a check for availability of 'bower' in bin/mkrelease. 
 - Legacy-Id: 17567

---
 bin/mkrelease | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/bin/mkrelease b/bin/mkrelease
index 22bc892da..05a0912cc 100755
--- a/bin/mkrelease
+++ b/bin/mkrelease
@@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ function note() {
 	if [ -n "$VERBOSE" ]; then echo -e "\n$*"; fi
 }
 
+function check() {
+  [ "$(which $1)" ] || die "could not find the '$1' command.  $2"
+}
+
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 function version() {
 	echo -e "$program $version"
@@ -119,6 +123,11 @@ while true ; do
     shift
 done
 
+# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Check some requirements
+
+check bower "It is required to update web resources.  Install with npm."
+
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 # The program itself