A somewhat older issue: * Martin Lambers wrote on Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 07:28:07PM CEST: > > Currently, 'make install' in the gnulib directory of my projects always > creates the directory $(pkgdatadir) (/usr/local/share/<packagename> by > default), even if it is empty. > > If I remove the initialization of pkgdata_DATA in Makefile.am, the > directory is not created.
FWIW, this bug should be fixed in Automake-1.9b. Cheers, Ralf