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diff --git a/morphlib/buildcommand.py b/morphlib/buildcommand.py
index be8a1507..a6be8a8c 100644
--- a/morphlib/buildcommand.py
+++ b/morphlib/buildcommand.py
@@ -119,7 +119,10 @@ class BuildCommand(object):
root_kind = root_artifact.source.morphology['kind']
if root_kind != 'system':
raise morphlib.Error(
- 'Building a %s directly is not supported' % root_kind)
+ 'In order to build this %s directly, please give the filename '
+ 'of the system which contains it, and the name of the %s. '
+ 'See `morph build --help` for more information.'
+ % (root_kind, root_kind))
def _validate_architecture(self, root_artifact):
'''Perform the validation between root and target architectures.'''