diff --git a/runtime/syntax/automake.vim b/runtime/syntax/automake.vim
index ea09927..d0877a5 100644
--- a/runtime/syntax/automake.vim
+++ b/runtime/syntax/automake.vim
@@ -1,9 +1,16 @@
 " Vim syntax file
 " Language:	automake Makefile.am
-" Maintainer:	John Williams <jrw@pobox.com>
-" Last change:	2001 May 09
-
-
+" Maintainer:   Debian VIM Maintainers <pkg-vim-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
+" Former Maintainer:	John Williams <jrw@pobox.com>
+" Last Change:	$LastChangedDate: 2006-04-16 22:06:40 -0400 (dom, 16 apr 2006) $
+" URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-vim/trunk/runtime/syntax/automake.vim?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
+"
+" XXX This file is in need of a new maintainer, Debian VIM Maintainers maintain
+"     it only because patches have been submitted for it by Debian users and the
+"     former maintainer was MIA (Missing In Action), taking over its
+"     maintenance was thus the only way to include those patches.
+"     If you care about this file, and have time to maintain it please do so!
+"
 " This script adds support for automake's Makefile.am format. It highlights
 " Makefile variables significant to automake as well as highlighting
 " autoconf-style @variable@ substitutions . Subsitutions are marked as errors
@@ -20,7 +27,7 @@
 
 syn match automakePrimary "^[A-Za-z0-9_]\+\(_PROGRAMS\|LIBRARIES\|_LIST\|_SCRIPTS\|_DATA\|_HEADERS\|_MANS\|_TEXINFOS\|_JAVA\|_LTLIBRARIES\)\s*="me=e-1
 syn match automakePrimary "^TESTS\s*="me=e-1
-syn match automakeSecondary "^[A-Za-z0-9_]\+\(_SOURCES\|_LDADD\|_LIBADD\|_LDFLAGS\|_DEPENDENCIES\)\s*="me=e-1
+syn match automakeSecondary "^[A-Za-z0-9_]\+\(_SOURCES\|_LDADD\|_LIBADD\|_LDFLAGS\|_DEPENDENCIES\|_CPPFLAGS\)\s*="me=e-1
 syn match automakeSecondary "^OMIT_DEPENDENCIES\s*="me=e-1
 syn match automakeExtra "^EXTRA_[A-Za-z0-9_]\+\s*="me=e-1
 syn match automakeOptions "^\(AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS\|ETAGS_ARGS\|TAGS_DEPENDENCIES\)\s*="me=e-1