From e42e14ef4d9b6b7fbff06186e2882a178634e0d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rsp2k <rpm@malloys.us>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2021 13:58:30 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add friendly check for jq

---
 build-latest.sh | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/build-latest.sh b/build-latest.sh
index 54ebe36..3ddb607 100755
--- a/build-latest.sh
+++ b/build-latest.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,15 @@
 
 echo "▶️ $0 $*"
 
+###
+# Check for the jq library needed for parsing JSON
+###
+if [ ! command -v jq &> /dev/null ]
+then
+    echo "⚠️ PRERELEASE must be either unset, 'true' or 'false', but was '${PRERELEASE}'!"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
 ###
 # Checking for the presence of GITHUB_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID
 # and GITHUB_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET