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diff --git a/mesonbuild/build.py b/mesonbuild/build.py
index d35c697..3debeeb 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/build.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/build.py
@@ -1830,7 +1830,8 @@ class CustomTarget(Target):
while hasattr(ed, 'held_object'):
ed = ed.held_object
if not isinstance(ed, (CustomTarget, BuildTarget)):
- raise InvalidArguments('Can only depend on toplevel targets: custom_target or build_target (executable or a library)')
+ raise InvalidArguments('Can only depend on toplevel targets: custom_target or build_target (executable or a library) got: %s(%s)'
+ % (type(ed), ed))
self.extra_depends.append(ed)
for i in depend_files:
if isinstance(i, (File, str)):