1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index e972e4b2524..7640d911129 100644
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -715,8 +715,8 @@ dvi:
 .PHONY: maybe_bootstrap
 
 maybe_bootstrap:
-        @bar=`echo ./lisp/*.elc`; \
-        if [ "$bar" = './lisp/*.elc' ]; then \
+        @bar="`echo ./lisp/*.elc`"; \
+        if [ \( "$(bar)" = './lisp/*.elc' \) -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."; \