Failure in make dist

[Jason Curl]

Hello,

I'm running autoconf-2.69 and automake-1.11.6 on Lubuntu12.10 and when I 
run distmake for my project, it aborts with the error:

> address@hidden:~/winlib/build/Linux$ make dist
> if test -d "winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427"; then find "winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427" -type d ! -perm -200 
> -exec chmod u+w {} ';' && rm -rf "winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427" || { sleep 5 && rm -rf 
> "winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427"; }; else :; fi
> test -d "winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427" || mkdir 
> "winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427"
>  (cd libwin && make  top_distdir=../winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427 
> distdir=../winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427/libwin \
>      am__remove_distdir=: am__skip_length_check=: am__skip_mode_fix=: distdir)
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jcurl/winlib/build/Linux/libwin'
>  (cd src && make  top_distdir=../../winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427 
> distdir=../../winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427/libwin/src \
>      am__remove_distdir=: am__skip_length_check=: am__skip_mode_fix=: distdir)
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jcurl/winlib/build/Linux/libwin/src'
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jcurl/winlib/build/Linux/libwin/src'
>  (cd test && make  top_distdir=../../winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427 
> distdir=../../winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427/libwin/test \
>      am__remove_distdir=: am__skip_length_check=: am__skip_mode_fix=: distdir)
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jcurl/winlib/build/Linux/libwin/test'
> cp: cannot create regular file 
> `../../winproglib-1.1.0.50.svn_20130427/libwin/test/Makefile.am': No such file 
> or directory
> make[2]: *** [distdir] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jcurl/winlib/build/Linux/libwin/test'
> make[1]: *** [distdir] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jcurl/winlib/build/Linux/libwin'
> make: *** [distdir] Error 1

when debugging, the failure appears that the directory "test" isn't 
created under winproglib-*/libwin.

When run configure, make, make dist on Cygwin or Ubuntu 11.10, then this 
error doesn't occur, indicating to me probably a failure of Lubuntu 
12.10. Note, I did *not* run autoreconf when rerunning on Cygwin.

But I don't know how to debug this further. I've added outputs to the 
generated Makefile, but I don't see where these directories should be 
created first.

when running autoreconf on Cygwin, with autoconf-2.69 and 
automake-1.12.5 I get the same errors on Lubuntu 12.10. It doesn't 
matter if I use bash, tcsh or dash (the default).