(maybe_bootstrap): Test for complete absence of compiled Lisp files.

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index be586918210..4a89d07d6d9 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-09-14  Richard M. Stallman  <rms@gnu.org>
+
+        * Makefile.in (maybe_bootstrap): Test for complete absence
+        of compiled Lisp files.
+
 2002-09-11  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@cs.yale.edu>
 
         * Makefile.in (bootstrap-lisp-1, bootstrap-lisp, bootstrap)
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