Merge pull request github#4063 from erik-krogh/noJsMsg

Approved by esbena

Author: codeql-ci

javascript/extractor/src/com/semmle/js/extractor/AutoBuild.java

@@ -210,6 +210,7 @@ public class AutoBuild {
   private final String defaultEncoding;
   private ExecutorService threadPool;
   private volatile boolean seenCode = false;
+  private volatile boolean seenFiles = false;
   private boolean installDependencies = false;
   private int installDependenciesTimeout;
   private final VirtualSourceRoot virtualSourceRoot;
@@ -472,7 +473,11 @@ public int run() throws IOException {
       shutdownThreadPool();
     }
     if (!seenCode) {
-      warn("No JavaScript or TypeScript code found.");
+      if (seenFiles) {
+        warn("Only found JavaScript or TypeScript files that were empty or contained syntax errors.");
+      } else {
+        warn("No JavaScript or TypeScript code found.");
+      }
       return -1;
     }
     return 0;
@@ -1201,6 +1206,7 @@ private void doExtract(FileExtractor extractor, Path file, ExtractorState state)
       long start = logBeginProcess("Extracting " + file);
       Integer loc = extractor.extract(f, state);
       if (!extractor.getConfig().isExterns() && (loc == null || loc != 0)) seenCode = true;
+      if (!extractor.getConfig().isExterns()) seenFiles = true;
       logEndProcess(start, "Done extracting " + file);
     } catch (Throwable t) {
       System.err.println("Exception while extracting " + file + ".");