Failure in make dist

[Jason Curl]

Hello,

I'm running autoconf-2.69 and automake-1.11.6 on Lubuntu12.10 and when I

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).