1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index 87f1ea6112e..a9664fcba7f 100644
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -716,7 +716,7 @@ dvi:
 
 maybe_bootstrap:
         @bar="`echo $(srcdir)/lisp/*.elc`"; \
-        if [ \( "$$bar" = '$(srcdir)/lisp/*.elc' \) -o \( "$bar" = '' \) ]; then \
+        if [ \( "$$bar" = '$(srcdir)/lisp/*.elc' \) -o \( "$$bar" = '' \) ]; 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."; \