Hi Mathieu - I'm glad you replied. I saw in the ChangeLog that you created AUTOMAKE_UNINSTALLED :). The general idea was clear, but all the implications, not so much.
Here is a patch that seem to fix the issue, I have added some clutter to AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT Thanks! make distcheck now passes completely, all three failing tests are fixed, with both python2 and python3. That is great. The only trivial thing I would ask is that I would appreciate not breaking new ground with the UTF-8 quotes in the comment, since they are not really necessary (the comment is just as understandable with no quote characters, or '...' if you prefer). There are no UTF-8 quotes in the main source files now. +# the âpre-inst-envâ wrapper script. Other than that, please push asap! --thanks again, karl.