--- colon7.test.old	Sat Jan 20 18:25:08 2001
+++ colon7.test	Sat Jan 20 19:02:27 2001
@@ -24,4 +24,12 @@
 : > subdir/Makefile.am
 : > subdir/foo
 
-$AUTOMAKE
+$AUTOMAKE || exit 1
+
+# shouldn't have any bar.in
+grep 'bar.in' subdir/Makefile.in && exit 1
+
+# DIST_COMMON should have foo, not subdir/foo
+grep 'DIST_COMMON.*subdir/foo' subdir/Makefile.in && exit 1
+
+exit 0