diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f4a17ad04..bafeb2bc5 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
 /lib/fcntl.h
 /lib/float.h
 /lib/fnmatch.h
+/lib/fts_.h
 /lib/getopt-cdefs.h
 /lib/getopt.h
 /lib/glthread
diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index 94bd46441..e147d4ae7 100644
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -812,7 +812,8 @@ sc_fs-magic-compare:
 sc_gitignore_missing:
 	@{ sed -n '/^\/lib\/.*\.h$$/{p;p}' $(srcdir)/.gitignore;	\
 	    find lib -name '*.in*' ! -name '*~' ! -name 'sys_*' |	\
-	      sed 's|^|/|; s|_\(.*in\.h\)|/\1|; s/\.in//'; } |		\
+	      sed 's|^|/|; s|_\(.*in\.h\)|/\1|; s/\.in//' |		\
+	      sed 's|/fts\.h$$|/fts_.h|'; } |				\
 	      sort | uniq -u | grep . && { echo '$(ME): Add above'	\
 		'entries to .gitignore' >&2; exit 1; } || :