config.status: error: ../../gltests/GNUmakefile: file not found

[Simon Josefsson]

This set of commands:

  gnulib-tool --create-testdir --dir m --with-tests maintainer-makefile
  cd m
  ./configure 
  make distcheck

results in:

...
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: linking ../../gltests/GNUmakefile to GNUmakefile
config.status: error: ../../gltests/GNUmakefile: file not found
configure: error: ../../gltests/configure failed for gltests
make: *** [distcheck] Error 1

The build itself works fine.  It is only the distcheck rule that fails.
Any ideas?  I see this code in modules/gnumakefile:

configure.ac:
# Autoconf 2.61a.99 and earlier don't support linking a file only
# in VPATH builds.  But since GNUmakefile is for maintainer use
# only, it does not matter if we skip the link with older autoconf.
# Automake 1.10.1 and earlier try to remove GNUmakefile in non-VPATH
# builds, so use a shell variable to bypass this.
GNUmakefile=GNUmakefile
m4_if(m4_version_compare([2.61a.100],
        m4_defn([m4_PACKAGE_VERSION])), [1], [],
      [AC_CONFIG_LINKS([$GNUmakefile:$GNUmakefile], [],
        [GNUmakefile=$GNUmakefile])])

However, I am using autoconf 2.63, automake 1.10.1 and libtool 2.2.6a.

There is no gltests/GNUmakefile, should gnulib-tool have copied one?
That's not clear to me.

/Simon