Improve wording of protobuf warning in Makefile
diff --git a/templates/Makefile.template b/templates/Makefile.template
index 0d5f0ec..687e557 100644
--- a/templates/Makefile.template
+++ b/templates/Makefile.template
@@ -1431,17 +1431,19 @@
@echo "Your system looks ready to go."
@echo
else
- @echo "We couldn't find protoc 3.0.0+ installed on your system. While this"
- @echo "won't prevent grpc from working, you won't be able to compile"
- @echo "and run any meaningful code with it."
+ @echo "Warning: it looks like protoc 3.0.0+ isn't installed on your system,"
+ @echo "which means that you won't be able to compile .proto files for use"
+ @echo "with gRPC."
@echo
+ @echo "If you are just using pre-compiled protocol buffers, or you otherwise"
+ @echo "have no need to compile .proto files, you can ignore this."
@echo
- @echo "Please download and install protobuf 3.0.0+ from:"
+ @echo "If you do need protobuf for some reason, you can download and install"
+ @echo "it from:"
@echo
@echo " https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases"
@echo
- @echo "Once you've done so, or if you think this message is in error,"
- @echo "you can re-run this check by doing:"
+ @echo "Once you've done so, you can re-run this check by doing:"
@echo
@echo " make verify-install"
endif