Notes on enabling maintainer mode Note that if you configure with --enable-maintainer-mode, you will need special versions of automake, autoconf, libtool and gettext. You will find the sources for these in the respective upstream directories: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext The required versions of the tools for this tree are autoconf 2.64 automake 1.11 libtool 2.2.6 gettext 0.14.5 Note - "make distclean" does not work with maintainer mode enabled. The Makefiles in the some of the po/ subdirectories depend upon the Makefiles in their parent directories, and distclean will delete the Makefiles in the parent directories before running the Makefiles in the child directories. There is no easy way around this (short of changing the automake macros) as these dependencies need to exist in order to correctly build the NLS files.