I hit this when I ran "make update-copyright" earlier today.
I worked around it by copying the file manually from gnulib.
With this, it will just work:
From 5dc586057b1c37d2a892c357cb940641ab97659e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 10:31:25 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] maint: add gnulib's update-copyright module
* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add update-copyright, so
that each year we can run "make update-copyright".
Otherwise, that rule fails due to the absence of the file
in build-aux.
---
bootstrap.conf | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf
index 9d9c5e4..6d33b1e 100644
--- a/bootstrap.conf
+++ b/bootstrap.conf
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ gnulib_modules="
non-recursive-gnulib-prefix-hack
progname
readme-release
+ update-copyright
wchar
"
--
1.9.0.152.g6ab4ae2
