(main): Don't implement --version if not initialized.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/emacs.c b/src/emacs.c
index 3de28f12db4..e998c853af9 100644
--- a/src/emacs.c
+++ b/src/emacs.c
@@ -579,7 +579,10 @@ main (argc, argv, envp)
 
   sort_args (argc, argv);
 
-  if (argmatch (argv, argc, "-version", "--version", 3, NULL, &skip_args))
+  if (argmatch (argv, argc, "-version", "--version", 3, NULL, &skip_args)
+      /* We don't know the version number unless this is a dumped Emacs.
+         So ignore --version otherwise.  */
+      && initialized)
     {
       Lisp_Object tem;
       tem = Fsymbol_value (intern ("emacs-version"));
@@ -591,7 +594,7 @@ main (argc, argv, envp)
       else
         {
           printf ("GNU Emacs %s\n", XSTRING (tem)->data);
-          printf ("Copyright (C) 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.\n");
+          printf ("Copyright (C) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.\n");
           printf ("GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.\n");
           printf ("You may redistribute copies of Emacs\n");
           printf ("under the terms of the GNU General Public License.\n");