distcheck fails because of gettext

[Akim Demaille]

Maybe this issue is known, maybe my set up is fishy, but:

Making uninstall in po
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/akim/src/bison/_build/bison-2.1a/_build/po'
catalogs='da.gmo de.gmo es.gmo et.gmo fr.gmo ga.gmo hr.gmo id.gmo it.gmo ja.gmo 
ms.gmo nb.gmo nl.gmo pl.gmo pt_BR.gmo ro.gmo ru.gmo rw.gmo sv.gmo tr.gmo 
vi.gmo'; \
        for cat in $catalogs; do \
          cat=`basename $cat`; \
          lang=`echo $cat | sed -e 's/\.gmo$//'`; \
          for lc in LC_MESSAGES ; do \
            rm -f /locale/$lang/$lc/bison.mo; \
          done; \
        done
rm: cannot remove `/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/bison.mo': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/bison.mo': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/bison.mo': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/bison.mo': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/bison.mo': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/bison.mo': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/bison.mo': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/bison.mo': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/bison.mo': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/bison.mo': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/bison.mo': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/bison.mo': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/bison.mo': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/bison.mo': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/bison.mo': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/bison.mo': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/bison.mo': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/bison.mo': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/bison.mo': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/bison.mo': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/bison.mo': Permission denied
make[2]: *** [uninstall-data-yes] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/akim/src/bison/_build/bison-2.1a/_build/po'
make[1]: *** [uninstall-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/akim/src/bison/_build/bison-2.1a/_build'
make: *** [distcheck] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/home/akim/src/bison/_build'

Anybody else observing this?  It seems connected to this Makefile
snippet:

  prefix = /home/akim/src/bison/_build/bison-2.1a/_inst
  exec_prefix = ${prefix}
  datadir = ${datarootdir}
  localedir = $(datadir)/locale
  gettextsrcdir = $(datadir)/gettext/po

datarootdir is not defined.  ISTR that this is one of the tasks of the
current CVS Autoconf.  Am I supposed to use a recent CVS Autoconf?

~/src/bison % autoconf --version                             nostromo Err 2
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59c
Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.

Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
~/src/bison % automake --version                             nostromo 14:57
automake (GNU automake) 1.9a
Written by Tom Tromey <address@hidden>
       and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden>.

Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


(Both are not very fresh and used to work fine).