Automake and makedepend

[Stan Guillory]

Hello. I am having trouble getting the dependency tracking mechanism of
automake to work with my build on
Solaris 9. The compiler we use is Forte Developer 7 C++ 5.4. The
depcomp wrapper is used in the compiles, but
the depmode is set to none. I don't know if this compiler is one of the
ones that the dependency tracking works.

Examing the source for the depcomp script, it seems that it can use
makedepend as the dependency tracking
mechanism. So I have two questions:

1) Should the dependency tracking mechanism in automake work by default
with Sun Forte C++ 5.4?

2) Is there a way to force automake to set the depmode to makedepend?

Thanks,
Stan