If $(bootstrap-tools) *doesn’t* include “gnulib”, a nested shell
command is supposed to expand to nothing, but instead it expands to
an empty argument, causing announce-gen to barf.
--srcdir=$(srcdir) \
--news=$(srcdir)/$(NEWS_file) \
--bootstrap-tools=$(bootstrap-tools) \
- "$$(case ,$(bootstrap-tools), in (*,gnulib,*) \
- echo --gnulib-version=$(gnulib-version);; esac)" \
+ $$(case ,$(bootstrap-tools), in (*,gnulib,*) \
+ echo --gnulib-version=$(gnulib-version);; esac) \
$(addprefix --url-dir=, $(url_dir_list)) \
$(announce_gen_args)