I guess no one saw anything obviously wrong with my distcheck permission
fixes (or no one read my screed, for which I wouldn't blame anyone :),
so closing. I still have no clue as to why it started failing "all of a
sudden", but I guess it doesn't really matter. -k
(Sorry, long message.)
As of a few days ago, in a normal working directory, running make
distcheck twice immediately fails the second time (for me):
if test -d "automake-1.16i"; then find "automake-1.16i" -type d ! -perm -200
-exec chmod u+w {} ';' && rm -rf "automake-1.16i" || { sleep 5 && rm