diff --git a/maven-core-it/maven-core-it.sh b/maven-core-it/maven-core-it.sh
index e635f674a3..a595650075 100755
--- a/maven-core-it/maven-core-it.sh
+++ b/maven-core-it/maven-core-it.sh
@@ -5,6 +5,15 @@
 home=`pwd`
 
 cp=`pwd`/../maven-core-it-verifier/target/maven-core-it-verifier-1.0.jar
+
+if [ ! -f $cp ]
+then
+  echo 
+  echo "The verifier needs to be built ... "
+  echo
+  ( cd ../maven-core-it-verifier; mboot --install )  
+fi
+
 verifier=org.apache.maven.it.Verifier
 
 integration_tests=`cat integration-tests.txt`