From ea8c55c919321f786865890f5bee6f0cad9f815a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 00:47:32 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] (maybe_bootstrap): Don't bootstrap, just suggest it.

---
 Makefile.in | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index 3941b0b07db..65c16eb2a1a 100644
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -692,8 +692,9 @@ dvi:
 .PHONY: maybe_bootstrap
 
 maybe_bootstrap:
-	if [ ! -f $(srcdir)/lisp/abbrev.elc ]; then \
-	  $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) bootstrap; \
+	@if [ ! -f $(srcdir)/lisp/abbrev.elc ]; then \
+	  echo "Essential Lisp files seem to be missing.  You should either" \
+	  echo "do `make bootstrap' or create `lisp/abbrev.elc' somehow."    \
 	fi
 
 bootstrap: bootstrap-clean-before bootstrap-lisp-1 bootstrap-src bootstrap-lisp bootstrap-clean-after all info
-- 
2.39.5