I'm running "dzil release --trial", and it looks to be extracting the archive into a directory that it doesn't expect.
(zjt@photon) 3:16pm ~/HTTP-DAV-Xythos
> /usr/local/bin/dzil test
[DZ] building test distribution under .build/tNVZhv4xvX
[DZ] beginning to build HTTP-DAV-Xythos
[DZ] guessing dist's main_module is lib/HTTP/DAV/Xythos.pm
[DZ] extracting distribution abstract from lib/HTTP/DAV/Xythos.pm
[@Basic/ExtraTests] rewriting release test xt/release/pod-syntax.t
[DZ] writing HTTP-DAV-Xythos in .build/tNVZhv4xvX
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for HTTP::DAV::Xythos
cp lib/HTTP/DAV/Xythos.pm blib/lib/HTTP/DAV/Xythos.pm
Manifying blib/man3/HTTP::DAV::Xythos.3pm
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/001_load.t ............ ok
t/002_ticket.t .......... ok
t/release-pod-syntax.t .. ok
All tests successful.
Files=3, Tests=7, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.02 usr 0.01 sys + 0.28 cusr 0.03 csys = 0.34 CPU)
Result: PASS
[DZ] all's well; removing .build/tNVZhv4xvX
(zjt@photon) 3:20pm ~/HTTP-DAV-Xythos
> /usr/local/bin/dzil build
[DZ] beginning to build HTTP-DAV-Xythos
[DZ] guessing dist's main_module is lib/HTTP/DAV/Xythos.pm
[DZ] extracting distribution abstract from lib/HTTP/DAV/Xythos.pm
[@Basic/ExtraTests] rewriting release test xt/release/pod-syntax.t
[DZ] writing HTTP-DAV-Xythos in HTTP-DAV-Xythos-1.101110
[DZ] writing archive to HTTP-DAV-Xythos-1.101110.tar.gz
(zjt@photon) 3:20pm ~/HTTP-DAV-Xythos
> /usr/local/bin/dzil release --trial
[DZ] beginning to build HTTP-DAV-Xythos
[DZ] guessing dist's main_module is lib/HTTP/DAV/Xythos.pm
[DZ] extracting distribution abstract from lib/HTTP/DAV/Xythos.pm
[@Basic/ExtraTests] rewriting release test xt/release/pod-syntax.t
[DZ] writing HTTP-DAV-Xythos in HTTP-DAV-Xythos-1.101110
[DZ] writing archive to HTTP-DAV-Xythos-1.101110-TRIAL.tar.gz
[@Basic/TestRelease] Extracting /home/zjt/HTTP-DAV-Xythos/HTTP-DAV-Xythos-1.101110-TRIAL.tar.gz to .build/EVSqAephN6
Can't chdir to /home/zjt/HTTP-DAV-Xythos/.build/EVSqAephN6/t: No such file or directory at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/Dist/Zilla.pm line 765
(zjt@photon) 3:21pm ~/HTTP-DAV-Xythos
> ls -la .build/EVSqAephN6
total 12
drwx------ 3 zjt zjt 4096 Apr 21 15:21 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 zjt zjt 4096 Apr 21 15:21 ..
drwxr-xr-x 4 zjt zjt 4096 Apr 21 15:21 HTTP-DAV-Xythos-1.101110
(zjt@photon) 3:21pm ~/HTTP-DAV-Xythos
> ls -la .build/EVSqAephN6/HTTP-DAV-Xythos-1.101110
total 56
drwxr-xr-x 4 zjt zjt 4096 Apr 21 15:21 .
drwx------ 3 zjt zjt 4096 Apr 21 15:21 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 zjt zjt 18258 Apr 21 15:21 LICENSE
-rw-r--r-- 1 zjt zjt 127 Apr 21 15:21 MANIFEST
-rw-r--r-- 1 zjt zjt 428 Apr 21 15:21 META.yml
-rw-r--r-- 1 zjt zjt 1363 Apr 21 15:21 Makefile.PL
-rw-r--r-- 1 zjt zjt 348 Apr 21 15:21 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 zjt zjt 175 Apr 21 15:21 dist.ini
drwxr-xr-x 3 zjt zjt 4096 Apr 21 15:21 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 zjt zjt 4096 Apr 21 15:21 t
(zjt@photon) 3:21pm ~/HTTP-DAV-Xythos
> cat dist.ini
name = HTTP-DAV-Xythos
license = Perl_5
copyright_holder = Jesse Thompson
[AutoVersion]
[AutoPrereq]
[PkgVersion]
[PodVersion]
[PodSyntaxTests]
[@Basic]