file permissions in a gzip'd tar file

[Wojciech Polak]

Hello,

Generating a gzip'd tar file for distribution via the
'make dist' makes the file permissions modified.
This (by default) should be forbidden, I think.
In my case I have a special directory, called 'examples',
where I keep a sample run control files, which must have
the 0600 permissions for security reasons.
The directory is specified by 'EXTRA_DIST = examples'
in Makefile.am. Creating a gzip'd tar file changes all
file permissions from 0600 to 0644. My only solution
for this problem is to generate a gzip'd tar file manually
with the 'tar zcvf foo.tar.gz foo', but it's not a good way
if you like automatic build process. Can you fix it?

Kind regards,
Wojciech Polak