diff --git a/src/Makefile.in b/src/Makefile.in
index 48552908e4f..7eb58732672 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.in
+++ b/src/Makefile.in
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ LIBES = $(LIBS) $(W32_LIBS) $(LIBS_GNUSTEP) $(LIBX_BASE) $(LIBIMAGE) \
    $(NOTIFY_LIBS) $(LIB_MATH) $(LIBZ) $(LIBMODULES) $(LIBSYSTEMD_LIBS) \
    $(JSON_LIBS) $(GMP_LIB)
 
-## FORCE it so that admin/unidata can decide whether these files are
+## FORCE it so that admin/unidata can decide whether this file is
 ## up-to-date.  Although since charprop depends on bootstrap-emacs,
 ## and emacs depends on charprop, in practice this rule was always run
 ## anyway.