Hi,
I *believe* I followed the documented procedures for permitting the existence of regenerated distributed files. The result is this warning message from find: Makefile.am: > distcleancheck_listfiles = \ > find -type f -exec sh -c 'test -f $(scrdir)/{} || echo {}' Shell output from "make dist" > if test '..' = . ; then \ > echo "ERROR: distcleancheck can only run from a VPATH build" ; \ > exit 1 ; \ > fi > test `find -type f -exec sh -c 'test -f /{} || echo {}' | wc -l` -eq 0 \ > || { echo "ERROR: files left after distclean:" ; \ > find -type f -exec sh -c 'test -f /{} || echo {}' ; \ > exit 1; } >&2 > find: missing argument to `-exec' > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bkorb/ag/ag/autogen-5.3.10/=build' > { test ! -d autogen-5.3.10 || { find autogen-5.3.10 -type d ! -perm -200 \ > -exec chmod u+w {} ';' && rm -fr autogen-5.3.10; }; } And why does '$(srcdir)' become the empty string?