diff --git a/src/mca/lam/oob/cofs/config/Makefile.am b/src/mca/lam/oob/cofs/config/Makefile.am
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--- a/src/mca/lam/oob/cofs/config/Makefile.am
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-# -*- makefile -*-
-#
-# $HEADER$
-#
-
-include $(top_lam_srcdir)/config/Makefile.options
-
-# This file is only here so that "make dist" grabs all the extra
-# config-level files that are necessary to build a LAM distribution
-# tarball.  Nothing gets built in this directory.
-
-# Seems to be an automake bug -- depcomp is not automatically included
-# in distribution tarballs.
-
-EXTRA_DIST		= depcomp