ssed-3.53 vs Automake 1.5 dependency tracking

[John Fremlin]

The enhanced version of GNU sed called ssed does not work with
automake 1.5 dependency tracking, apparently due to magic in the
./configure (autoconf 2.13) script. With ssed the .deps directories
are not created by ./configure and are not populated. sed-3.02 on the
same setup does not exhibit the problem.

The ./configure Makefile outputs are identical. However with ssed
trying to make obviously results in complaints about non-existant .Po
files. Sorry but I don't have time to debug the problem.

For example, from the readily available cvs-1.11p1 package:

Makefile:282: .deps/argmatch.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:283: .deps/dup2.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:284: .deps/fncase.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:285: .deps/fnmatch.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:286: .deps/ftruncate.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:287: .deps/getdate.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:288: .deps/getline.Po: No such file or directory
Makefile:289: .deps/getopt.Po: No such file or directory

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