# The automake manual states that the list of automatically-distributed
# files should be given by 'automake --help'.
-list=`$AUTOMAKE --help \
- | sed -n '/^Files.*automatically distributed.*if found.*always/,/^ *$/p' \
- | sed 1d`
+list=$($AUTOMAKE --help \
+ | sed -n '/^Files.*automatically distributed.*if found.*always/,/^ *$/p' \
+ | sed 1d)
# Normalize whitespace, just in case.
-list=`echo $list`
+list=$(echo $list)
test -n "$list"