I was surprised to find that "make syntax-check" was failing.
Here's the trivial fix: (I'll push it later today)
>From eaa96cb8bd6dca5317329b6682df91dfda286d06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:05:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] maint: a
FYI,
>From a1a00a9768e6206feb8ca768d2aa66cdf3408c5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:19:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] maint: avoid "make syntax-check" failure
* Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/INSTALL): Remove spurious space-before-TAB.
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Makefile.am