thanks for the reports. i needed some feedback on this step in order to make it more portable.
in order to do this correctly, i needed to determine if GNU libc is installed. from the gettext overview (http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Overview): Note that on GNU systems, you don't need to link with libintl because the gettext library functions are already contained in GNU libc. since other config steps, like auto::backtrace, also want to know if GNU libc is available, i created a new config step: auto::glibc. i then modified the auto::gettext link command based on the information returned from auto::glibc. note that i have not modified auto::backtrace, since i don't have a platform with GNU libc on which to test changes. based on reports on #parrot, as of 26949, gettext detection working everywhere i know of (windows, darwin, linux). marking this ticket resolved. ~jerry
