If you have a project that uses intltool, you should be trying to get rid of it in favor of using AM_GNU_GETTEXT instead. Matthias wrote a nice post about this recently. Fortunately, it’s very easy to do. I decided to port gnome-chess during some downtime today, and ran into only one tough problem: make[1]: Entering directory ‘/home/mcatanzaro/.cache/jhbuild/build/gnome-chess/po’ Makefile:253: …