Should automake create directories for nested files?

[Daniel Shane]

Hi,

It seems as though the following rule, although valid, does not run very
well:

  pkgdata_DATA = etc/config.conf

It will not create the etc directory, although it will create pkgdatadir,
therefore
the user will get: No such file or directory when installing config.conf.

This happens under redhat 7.2. Is this the expected behavior? Is there a
workaround?

Thanks!
Daniel Shane