automake on Red Hat 7.1beta

[Paul F. Kunz]

   The generation of the .dep/*.P files is incorrect on my Red Hat
7.1beta (with imfamous gcc 2.96).   When I configure in build
directory outside of source directory, I get a first line like

../../hippodraw/src/AxisModelBase.lo ../../hippodraw/src/AxisModelBase.o ;

(i.e. pointing to the source directory tree) where I should get

AxisModelBase.lo AxisModelBase.o ;

The version of automake is 1.4 on the RH 7.1 system, while version
1.4a on my RH 6.x systems.

   Is this a problem with gcc 2.96?   automake 1.4 (without `a')?