%general-entities; ]> Gettext Gettext includes its own version of Libtool which is broken for x86_64 (it tries to link statically linked archives compiled without -fPIC against shared objects) see (). Use the following sed to skip certain tests so that the main language tests can be run. sed -i -e '2iexit 77' autoconf-lib-link/tests/rpath-3*[ef] Prepare Gettext for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr Compile the package: make To test the results, issue: make check. Install the package: make install