[I am battling stomach flu, please be patient]
Didier Verna <verna(a)inf.enst.fr> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
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 	No, the cleaner approach is to fix the Makefile in the leim source
 distribution, I think. While making bindist, more precisely when
 copying all the stuff to the staging directory, the leim subdirs
 organization is not preserved, (all is put under lisp/leim/) and a
 completely fucked up tarball is built. 
This is correct.  The current leim tarball is totally hosed.  The
correct fix is to preserve the quail/ subdirectory.
 	Steve, could you confirm that my analysis is correct ? 
Yup.  I'll try to make a fixed release by this weekend.