Olaf Lenz <ol...@icp.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote: > [...] > The problem seems to be a race condition. > "make dist-bzip2" populates the distribution dir, tars it and deletes it > after 5 seconds. During that time "make dist-xz" has started and noticed > that the distdir already exists. Unfortunately, it is deleted while > dist-xz is still packing.
For a possible workaround, see <URI:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.bugs/4940>. I agree that it would be nice to fix this properly. Tim