From 25eebe95e4c27b3f08ec017338b142f187d5f8ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sauyon Lee <sauyon@github.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 09:39:34 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] autobuilder: Clarify error message

---
 extractor/autobuilder/autobuilder.go | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/extractor/autobuilder/autobuilder.go b/extractor/autobuilder/autobuilder.go
index f31e3b6ffae..11c49735eaa 100644
--- a/extractor/autobuilder/autobuilder.go
+++ b/extractor/autobuilder/autobuilder.go
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ func checkExtractorRun() bool {
 		}
 		return true
 	} else {
-		log.Fatalf("No source directory set.")
+		log.Fatalf("No source directory set.\nThis binary should not be run manually; instead, use the CodeQL CLI or VSCode extension. See https://securitylab.github.com/tools/codeql.")
 		return false
 	}
 }