With automake-1.5, "make distcheck" fails toward the end with several permission denied errors. Everything used to work fine in 1.4.
My configure.in puts config stuff in a subdirectory. It has in it: AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(config) When I run "make distcheck" I end with these errors: make[1]: Entering directory `/home/dac/AR/src/doms/doms-0.5.9/=build' chmod -R a+w doms-0.5.9 >/dev/null 2>&1; rm -rf doms-0.5.9 mkdir doms-0.5.9 /bin/sh ../config/mkinstalldirs doms-0.5.9/config mkdir doms-0.5.9/config cp: cannot create regular file `doms-0.5.9/config/config.guess': Permission denied cp: cannot create regular file `doms-0.5.9/config/config.sub': Permission denied cp: cannot create regular file `doms-0.5.9/config/depcomp': Permission denied cp: cannot create regular file `doms-0.5.9/config/install-sh': Permission denied cp: cannot create regular file `doms-0.5.9/config/ltmain.sh': Permission denied cp: cannot create regular file `doms-0.5.9/config/missing': Permission denied cp: cannot create regular file `doms-0.5.9/config/mkinstalldirs': Permission denied make[1]: *** [distdir] Error 1 make[1]: Target `dist' not remade because of errors. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dac/AR/src/doms/doms-0.5.9/=build' First, why is it trying to re-create the config stuff? Second, why didn't it fix the permissions? [dac@rudi doms]$ ll -d doms-0.5.9/=build/doms-0.5.9/config dr-xr-xr-x 3 dac arp 4096 Dec 11 12:25 doms-0.5.9/=build/doms-0.5.9/config/ I tried adding a "dist-hook" to fix the permissions, but it doesn't seem to run at the right time. I'm not on the list. Please CC me on any replies. -Dan