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authorDan Nissenbaum <daniel347x@gmail.com>2019-07-18 16:53:24 -0400
committerPhil Christensen <philc@microsoft.com>2019-07-18 13:53:24 -0700
commitef48500ac6ec3f9e0f494329365452d3ad9e1271 (patch)
tree7c99e88a6264e232e9b7582325a0d3e03997bb95
parent4661bb1daa2b370d9634081786ccf13d9d00b0ce (diff)
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Better error message when VCPKG_ROOT is independently defined (#7229)
-rw-r--r--toolsrc/src/vcpkg.cpp2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/toolsrc/src/vcpkg.cpp b/toolsrc/src/vcpkg.cpp
index 363b39814..46ec8c013 100644
--- a/toolsrc/src/vcpkg.cpp
+++ b/toolsrc/src/vcpkg.cpp
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ static void inner(const VcpkgCmdArguments& args)
#else
const int exit_code = chdir(paths.root.c_str());
#endif
- Checks::check_exit(VCPKG_LINE_INFO, exit_code == 0, "Changing the working dir failed");
+ Checks::check_exit(VCPKG_LINE_INFO, exit_code == 0, "Changing the working directory to the vcpkg root directory failed. Did you incorrectly define the VCPKG_ROOT environment variable, or did you mistakenly create a file named .vcpkg-root somewhere?");
if (args.command == "install" || args.command == "remove" || args.command == "export" || args.command == "update")
{