'make distcheck' works now

Makefile.am

@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \
 
 SUBDIRS = docs lib src include tests packages
 
+# create a root makefile in the distribution:
+dist-hook:
+	cp Makefile.dist $(distdir)/Makefile
+
 test:
 	@(cd tests; make quiet-test)
 

configure.in

@@ -615,6 +615,7 @@ AC_OUTPUT( Makefile \
 	   src/Makefile \
            lib/Makefile \
            tests/Makefile \
+           tests/data/Makefile \
 	   packages/Makefile \
 	   packages/Win32/Makefile \
 	   packages/Linux/Makefile \

tests/Makefile.am

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-EXTRA_DIST = data ftpserver.pl httpserver.pl runtests.pl
+EXTRA_DIST = ftpserver.pl httpserver.pl runtests.pl
+
+SUBDIRS = data
 
 all:
 install: