1 diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in

     2 index 68d236d..b7aa318 100644

     3 --- a/Makefile.in

     4 +++ b/Makefile.in

     5 @@ -415,7 +415,8 @@ distdir: $(DISTFILES)

     6  	      || exit 1; \

     7  	  fi; \

     8  	done

     9 -	-find $(distdir) -type d ! -perm -777 -exec chmod a+rwx {} \; -o \

    10 +	-find "$(distdir)" -type d ! -perm -755 \

    11 +		-exec chmod u+rwx,go+rx {} \; -o \

    12  	  ! -type d ! -perm -444 -links 1 -exec chmod a+r {} \; -o \

    13  	  ! -type d ! -perm -400 -exec chmod a+r {} \; -o \

    14  	  ! -type d ! -perm -444 -exec $(SHELL) $(install_sh) -c -m a+r {} {} \; \

    15 diff --git a/lib/am/distdir.am b/lib/am/distdir.am

    16 index 151f5f0..b64b2de 100644

    17 --- a/lib/am/distdir.am

    18 +++ b/lib/am/distdir.am

    19 @@ -192,11 +192,7 @@ if %?DIST-TARGETS%

    20  endif %?DIST-TARGETS%

    21  ##

    22  ## This complex find command will try to avoid changing the modes of

    23 -## links into the source tree, in case they're hard-linked.  It will

    24 -## also make directories writable by everybody, because some

    25 -## brain-dead tar implementations change ownership and permissions of

    26 -## a directory before extracting the files, thus becoming unable to

    27 -## extract them.

    28 +## links into the source tree, in case they're hard-linked.

    29  ##

    30  ## Ignore return result from chmod, because it might give an error

    31  ## if we chmod a symlink.

    32 @@ -209,7 +205,8 @@ endif %?DIST-TARGETS%

    33  ## the file in place in the source tree.

    34  ##

    35  if %?TOPDIR_P%

    36 -	-find $(distdir) -type d ! -perm -777 -exec chmod a+rwx {} \; -o \

    37 +	-find "$(distdir)" -type d ! -perm -755 \

    38 +		-exec chmod u+rwx,go+rx {} \; -o \

    39  	  ! -type d ! -perm -444 -links 1 -exec chmod a+r {} \; -o \

    40  	  ! -type d ! -perm -400 -exec chmod a+r {} \; -o \

    41  	  ! -type d ! -perm -444 -exec $(SHELL) $(install_sh) -c -m a+r {} {} \; \