diff --git a/winsup/mingw/ChangeLog b/winsup/mingw/ChangeLog
index e69c1f221..c171a2250 100644
--- a/winsup/mingw/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/mingw/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2007-07-23 Keith Marshall <keithmarshall@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* Makefile.in (SUBDIRS): Delete stray line continuation artifact,
+	resulting from incomplete removal of enclosing `for ...; do ...; done'
+	loop from compound command; (reported by Greg Chicares).
+
 2007-07-19  Danny Smith  <dannysmith@users.sourceforge.net>
 
 	* include/fcntl.h (_O_WTEXT, _O_U16TEXT, _O_U8TEXT) Define for
diff --git a/winsup/mingw/Makefile.in b/winsup/mingw/Makefile.in
index 8958aee8f..4e00b0729 100644
--- a/winsup/mingw/Makefile.in
+++ b/winsup/mingw/Makefile.in
@@ -472,8 +472,10 @@ subdirs: $(SUBDIRS)
 	    rootsrc=`cd $(srcdir); pwd`/ ; export rootsrc ; \
 	    cd ./$@; \
 	    $(MAKE) $(FLAGS_TO_PASS) $(DO)) ; then true ; \
-	  else exit 1 ; fi ; \
-	else true ; fi ; \
+	  else exit 1 ; \
+	  fi ; \
+	else true ; \
+	fi
 
 force: