From 953515131b32deaf26410cb78b7eb6fe93d4d9b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jakub=20Ber=C3=A1nek?= <berykubik@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:43:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Improve error message when a submodule directory is missing
 completely

---
 src/bootstrap/src/lib.rs | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/bootstrap/src/lib.rs b/src/bootstrap/src/lib.rs
index dfaf0418d9a2b..c41be41219e0f 100644
--- a/src/bootstrap/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/bootstrap/src/lib.rs
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ impl Build {
         }
         self.config.update_submodule(submodule);
         let absolute_path = self.config.src.join(submodule);
-        if dir_is_empty(&absolute_path) {
+        if !absolute_path.exists() || dir_is_empty(&absolute_path) {
             let maybe_enable = if !self.config.submodules()
                 && self.config.rust_info.is_managed_git_subrepository()
             {