version := ${shell sed -n -e '/(defconst emacs-version/s/^[^"]*\("[^"]*"\).*/\1/p' lisp/version.el}
# Q: Do we need to bootstrap?
-# A: Only if we find admin/admin.el, i.e. we are building out of CVS,
-# and src/b-emacs.exe does not exist. This avoids building a
-# bootstrap-emacs and recompiling Lisp files when building a
-# pretest/release tarball.
+# A: Only if we find admin/admin.el, i.e. we are building out of
+# a VCS-checkout (not a release) and src/b-emacs.exe does not exist.
+# This avoids building a bootstrap-emacs and recompiling Lisp files
+# when building a pretest/release tarball.
boot :=
ifneq ($(wildcard admin/admin.el),)
ifeq ($(wildcard src/b-emacs.exe),)