Use REQUIRE so eautopoint --force will upgrade gettext to 0.22 if available. --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ ALL_LINGUAS="cs da de es fr fi hu id ja ka ko nb pl pt_BR ro ru rw sr sv vi zh_C dnl Checks for programs. AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) -AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.21]) +AM_GNU_GETTEXT_REQUIRE_VERSION([0.21]) dnl This is a hacky workaround as the m4 scripts for iconv seem to set dnl LIBICONV to '-liconv' despite that this lib is not available if iconv