Error in INDEX file

[Conrad J. Sabatier]

While investigating the cause of sudden crashes this morning in
mkreadmes, I discovered that my INDEX-10 file has the following as its
first line:

make: don't know how to make describe(continuing)||||||||||

Is anyone else seeing the same?  Is there a general problem with index
file creation at this time?  Does anyone have a clue as to where the
root of the problem may be?

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Conrad J. Sabatier
conrads at cox.net