Hi there, With current CVS automake, 'make distcheck' fails on automake, because readonly file version.texi in readonly directory cannot be written to.
I suppose the change from 2003-11-08 caused this, but as I don't understand all the implications, I won't suggest a fix. Regards, Ralf [ after successful ../configure from automake-1.7i/_build ] Making all in doc make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ralf/automake/build/automake-1.7i/_build/doc' Updating ../../doc/version.texi cp: cannot create regular file `../../doc/version.texi': Permission denied make[2]: *** [../../doc/stamp-vti] Error 1