diff --git a/source/dub/commandline.d b/source/dub/commandline.d
index 84186df..077b9f6 100644
--- a/source/dub/commandline.d
+++ b/source/dub/commandline.d
@@ -427,18 +427,18 @@
 
 	private bool loadCwdPackage(Dub dub, bool warn_missing_package)
 	{
-		bool found = existsFile(dub.rootPath ~ "source/app.d");
-		if (!found)
-			foreach (f; packageInfoFiles)
-				if (existsFile(dub.rootPath ~ f.filename)) {
-					found = true;
-					break;
-				}
+		bool found;
+		foreach (f; packageInfoFiles)
+			if (existsFile(dub.rootPath ~ f.filename))
+			{
+				found = true;
+				break;
+			}
 
 		if (!found) {
 			if (warn_missing_package) {
 				logInfo("");
-				logInfo("Neither a package description file, nor source/app.d was found in");
+				logInfo("No package manifest (dub.json or dub.sdl) was found in");
 				logInfo(dub.rootPath.toNativeString());
 				logInfo("Please run DUB from the root directory of an existing package, or run");
 				logInfo("\"dub init --help\" to get information on creating a new package.");
diff --git a/test/issue1277.sh b/test/issue1277.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..5471c8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/issue1277.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+. $(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/common.sh
+
+cd ${CURR_DIR}/issue1003-check-empty-ld-flags
+
+# It should fail
+! ${DUB} --root=${CURR_DIR}/issue1277/ build
diff --git a/test/issue1277/.no_build b/test/issue1277/.no_build
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/issue1277/.no_build
diff --git a/test/issue1277/source/app.d b/test/issue1277/source/app.d
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ab73b3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/issue1277/source/app.d
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+void main() {}