[Bug-tar] `make install' failure with latest CVS sources

[Jim Meyering]

Hi Sergey,

When running `make install' with the latest CVS sources, I get lots of
errors like this:

  mkdir -p -- /locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES
  mkdir: cannot create directory `/locale': Permission denied
  /p/bin/install: cannot create regular file 
`/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo': No such file or directory

I had something similar happen to coreutils a few months ago, and
tracked it down to the lack of a definition of $(datarootdir)
in po/Makefile.in.in.  Normally, I'd make this change

--- Makefile.in.in.~1~  2005-03-31 11:30:45.000000000 +0200
+++ Makefile.in.in      2006-04-23 01:16:21.118680211 +0200
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ VPATH = @srcdir@
 
 prefix = @prefix@
 exec_prefix = @exec_prefix@
+datarootdir = @datarootdir@
 datadir = @datadir@
 localedir = $(datadir)/locale
 gettextsrcdir = $(datadir)/gettext/po

But tar's copy of po/Makefile.in.in is not directly version-controlled
and I haven't dug far enough to see where it's coming from.

Jim