Hello Jay. Thanks for the report. The problem you encountered has already been fixed in the Automake's git repository; JFTR, the relevant commit should be `375912c466b28a6121d351b9ff5513133a1c7227': <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=automake.git;a=commit;h=375912c466b28a6121d351b9ff5513133a1c7227>
Note that this fix has been included in the Automake release 1.11.1, which also fixed a quite serious security issue: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2009-12/msg00012.html> Thus I'd advise you to switch to Automake 1.11.1 for the future, if you have the possibility. Regards, Stefano