It would still pass, but would print many diagnostics like this:
Can't open src/Makefile.am: No such file or directory.
* cfg.mk (local-checks-to-skip): Temporarily disable a test.
This test will need to be adapted to work with a non-recursive
build set-up, in which there is no Makefile.am alongside each program.
Reported by Bernhard Voelker.
url_dir_list = http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/$(PACKAGE)
# Tests not to run as part of "make distcheck".
-local-checks-to-skip =
+local-checks-to-skip = \
+ sc_proper_name_utf8_requires_ICONV
# Tools used to bootstrap this package, used for "announcement".
bootstrap-tools = autoconf,automake,gnulib,bison