--- /dev/null
+#! /bin/sh
+# Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+# any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# Expose automake bug#10975: when several "dist-*" targets are invoked
+# on the make command line, the first one ends up removing the distdir,
+# so that the latter ones fail.
+
+required=bzip2
+. ./defs || Exit 1
+
+set -e
+
+echo AC_OUTPUT >> configure.in
+: > Makefile.am
+
+$ACLOCAL || fatal_ "aclocal failed"
+$AUTOCONF || fatal_ "autoconf failed"
+$AUTOMAKE || fatal_ "automake failed"
+
+./configure
+$MAKE dist-gzip dist-bzip2
+
+gzip -dc $distdir.tar.gz | tar tf - > one || { cat one; Exit 1; }
+cat one
+bzip2 -dc $distdir.tar.gz | tar tf - > two || { cat two; Exit 1; }
+cat two
+
+$FGREP "$distdir/Makefile.am" one
+diff one two
+
+: