this fixes a portability bug introduced in the 2002-06-08 fix for

PR automake/317.

diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index ee2107c3bdd5914d18ed6ceb6663d1e26f7723ee..2237821d1316c06ac93c0652184f43d95c257750 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ maintainer-check: automake aclocal
 ## Never use something like `for file in $(FILES)', this doesn't work
 ## if FILES is empty or if it contains shell meta characters (e.g. $ is
 ## commonly used in Java filenames).
-       @if egrep 'for .* in \$$\(' $(srcdir)/lib/am/[a-z]*.am; then \
+       @if grep 'for .* in \$$(' $(srcdir)/lib/am/[a-z]*.am; then \
          echo 'Use "list=$$(mumble); for var in $$$$list".' 1>&2 ; \
          exit 1; \
        else :; fi