I being a little speculative here, but I am leaning towards the idea I expressed above: The fink gettext package's not providing autopoint. Whilst this is arguably fink's bug, I do suggest removing the fink gettext and installing the latest GNU gettext.

If this is too fiddly, please post again and I will think about it. Ideally, we need to recruit a fink dev to this team or find some way of doing without autopoint.

Ben