--- glib-2.16.2/configure.in.orig	2008-04-08 11:27:15 +0000
+++ glib-2.16.2/configure.in	2008-04-08 11:27:27 +0000
@@ -460,13 +460,6 @@
 ALL_LINGUAS="am ar as az be be@latin bg bn bn_IN bs ca cs cy da de dz el en_CA en_GB eo es et eu fa fi fr ga gl gu he hi hr hu hy id is it ja ka kn ko ku lt lv mg mk ml mn mr ms nb ne nl nn oc or pa pl pt pt_BR ro ru rw si sk sl sq sr sr@Latn sr@ije sv ta te th tl tr tt uk vi wa xh yi zh_CN zh_HK zh_TW"
 GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT
 
-if test "$gt_cv_have_gettext" != "yes" ; then
-  AC_MSG_ERROR([
-*** You must have either have gettext support in your C library, or use the 
-*** GNU gettext library. (http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html
-])
-fi
-
 LIBS="$INTLLIBS $LIBS"
 
 GETTEXT_PACKAGE=glib20