What about this? I haven't tried it, but I think it should work. The only special "program" in gnulib is git-merge-changelog; though now that I think about it, it makes more sense to split out git-merge-changelog into a seperate project.
2012-01-03 Alfred M. Szmidt <a...@gnu.org> * modules/git-merge-changelog (bin_PROGRAMS): Variable renamed to ... (bin_nodist_PROGRAMS): ... this. diff --git a/modules/git-merge-changelog b/modules/git-merge-changelog index 857a8bc..aa05103 100644 --- a/modules/git-merge-changelog +++ b/modules/git-merge-changelog @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ memcmp configure.ac: Makefile.am: -bin_PROGRAMS = git-merge-changelog +bin_nodist_PROGRAMS = git-merge-changelog git_merge_changelog_LDADD = libgnu.a @LIBINTL@ $(LIBTHREAD) Include: