From e35961d3b980d2201699276a4e68de8a5f987480 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:51:23 +0200
Subject: Improve diagnostics

---
 build2/dist/operation.cxx | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'build2/dist')

diff --git a/build2/dist/operation.cxx b/build2/dist/operation.cxx
index 0ab9241..bbd7357 100644
--- a/build2/dist/operation.cxx
+++ b/build2/dist/operation.cxx
@@ -124,7 +124,9 @@ namespace build2
           target& t (*static_cast<target*> (v));
 
           if (rs != t.base_scope ().root_scope ())
-            fail << "out of project target " << t;
+            fail << "target " << t << " is from a different project" <<
+              info << "one dist() meta-operation can handle one project" <<
+              info << "consider using several dist() meta-operations";
 
           l5 ([&]{trace << diag_doing (a, t);});
 
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