From 218e1ed60a4cb24ee0ac7483dabb7512970aca36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 01:53:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] (maybe_bootstrap): Test for complete absence of compiled Lisp
 files.

---
 Makefile.in | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index fde9f14c40c..e972e4b2524 100644
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -715,9 +715,11 @@ dvi:
 .PHONY: maybe_bootstrap
 
 maybe_bootstrap:
-	@if [ ! -f $(srcdir)/lisp/abbrev.elc ]; then \
-	  echo "Essential Lisp files seem to be missing.  You should either"; \
-	  echo "do \`make bootstrap' or create \`lisp/abbrev.elc' somehow.";    \
+        @bar=`echo ./lisp/*.elc`; \
+	if [ "$bar" = './lisp/*.elc' ]; then \
+	  echo "Your tree does not include the compiled Lisp files."; \
+	  echo "You need to do \`make bootstrap' to build Emacs."; \
+	  echo "Emacs now requires Texinfo version 4.2."; \
 	  exit 1;\
 	fi
 
-- 
2.30.2