Ok, I switched to automake 1.9 -- and I get messages saying that the automake config was made with 1.6 and run aclocal to fix. Which does nothing.

This gettext piece is by far the most frustrating build I've encountered, this automake and autoreconf crapola is infuriatingly "too smart for its own good" (or mine, it would seem).

I'll wait for an OSX binary disto to start testing XaraLX, sorry folks.