I reported this in bug #61832. 58eea3375c (Bjarni Ingi Gislason 2022-01-16 17:16:31 +0000 506) MOSTLYCLEANDIRS = f2a4739d17 (G. Branden Robinson 2023-04-20 04:07:24 -0500 618) MOSTLYCLEANDIRS =
I will just remove my addition. My commit in local repository:: commit 58eea3375cb5bc63ac9093fab22cde1af67a3ba4 Author: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarn...@rhi.hi.is> Date: Sun Jan 16 17:16:31 2022 +0000 Makefile.am: error caused be "MOSTLYCLEANDIRS" not being set to empty This emerged after adding "posixcheck" to variable "gnulib_modules" in "bootstrap.conf" command "make distclean" in the build directory command "bootstrap" in the git/groff directory. Output from "bootstrap": ---cut--- autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing lib/gnulib.mk:119: error: MOSTLYCLEANDIRS must be set with '=' before using '+=' Makefile.am:648: 'lib/gnulib.mk' included from here autoreconf: error: automake failed with exit status: 1 ./bootstrap: autoreconf failed ---cut--- Using bootstrap 2021-04-11.09 Signed-off-by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarn...@rhi.hi.is> diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index 52a5b147e..115d3d3a7 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -542,6 +542,7 @@ bin_SCRIPTS = dist_bin_SCRIPTS = # stuff that should be in distribution archives but not in source repo MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = +MOSTLYCLEANDIRS = MOSTLYCLEANFILES = noinst_LIBRARIES = BUILT_SOURCES =