On Apr 26, 2016, at 4:11 PM, pd-dev-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

From: IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig@iem.at>

Subject: [PD-dev] optionally building po/

Date: April 26, 2016 at 4:00:00 PM MDT

To: PureData developer's list <pd-dev@lists.iem.at>

i remember somebody mentioning problems with the autotools-based build
failing if gettext was not installed.
alas, i cannot find the email (but i suspect dan).

anyhow, could that person (or somebody else) test whether the attached
patch fixes this? (it should just not try to build the po files)