diff --git a/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass b/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
index 765958e..52226f1 100644
--- a/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/sanity.bbclass
@@ -390,7 +390,8 @@ def check_sanity(sanity_data):
 
     paths = sanity_data.getVar('PATH', True).split(":")
     if "." in paths or "" in paths:
-        messages = messages + "PATH contains '.' or '', which will break the build, please remove this."
+        messages = messages + "PATH contains '.' or '' (empty element), which will break the build, please remove this.\n"
+        messages = messages + "Parsed PATH is " + str(paths) + "\n"
 
     bbpaths = sanity_data.getVar('BBPATH', True).split(":")
     if "." in bbpaths or "" in bbpaths:
@@ -402,6 +403,7 @@ def check_sanity(sanity_data):
                 "Please check your layer.conf files and other BBPATH "        \
                 "settings to remove the current working directory "           \
                 "references.");
+        bb.warn("Parsed BBPATH is" + str(bbpaths));
 
     if sanity_data.getVar('TARGET_ARCH', True) == "arm":
         # This path is no longer user-readable in modern (very recent) Linux