Jim Meyering wrote: > * top/maint.mk (PREV_VERSION): Suppress stderr, to hide a > diagnostic when .prev-version does not exist. > (_cfg_mk): Define, so it can be empty when cfg.mk does not exist. > (syntax-check-rules): Use $(_cfg_mk) to avoid a diagnostic about > nonexistent cfg.mk.
So now I've withdrawn the patch to gnulib-tool that excluded maintainer-makefile. Bruno