Hi, the NEWS file of the GNU Autoconf Archive begins with a copyright header. As a result, the check-news target fails, because the output of "head ./NEWS" doesn't contain the release line that target is looking for.
I have worked around the problem by patching maint.mk as follows: sed -i -e 's,head $(srcdir)/NEWS,head -n 20 $(srcdir)/NEWS,' maint.mk Maybe it's worthwhile to change that in the distribution, too? Take care Peter
