make distcheck fails: permission denied

[Dan Christian]

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?

address@hidden 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