$bar may be empty when there are no .elc files.
.PHONY: maybe_bootstrap
maybe_bootstrap:
- @bar=`echo ./lisp/*.elc`; \
- if [ "$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."; \