Good eye, thanks! It's passing strange that this fact wasn't noted before, because this file has had $(G) references since [a commit by @dottedmag in December 2011](https://github.com/cfengine/core/commit/2a8ffecbeabfc17d9ddcc9e49fe984430f060086). I'm adding a commit to fix it, but whoever's responsible for the test suite should take a closer look. When I crunched through the acceptance tests on my HP-UX box this wasn't among those that failed.