I am experiencing a similar problem on Linux -- but not on Darwin. Linux
On Linux I have a vendor-supplied (Debian) gettext: [li11-226:parrot] 519 $ /usr/bin/gettext --version gettext (GNU gettext-runtime) 0.16.1 Copyright (C) 1995-1997, 2000-2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Configure.pl does *not* detect this: Seeing if your configuration includes gettext..................no. Darwin On Darwin, I have an older version of gettext that was installed via Fink. $ gettext --version gettext (GNU gettext) 0.10.40 Copyright (C) 1995-1997, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. $ which gettext /sw/bin/gettext Configure.pl *does* detect this: Seeing if your configuration includes gettext...................yes.
