With a very clean gentoo system with no other problems to date: Gimp does not compile because: In file included from Lib.xs:40: ../perl-intl.h:8: libintl.h: No such file or directory This is strange because this file exists (/var/tmp/portage/gimp-1.2.3-r2/work/gimp-1.2.3/intl) but does not seem to be within the -I parameters for this specific file when compiled as per the makefile ... cc -c -I/var/tmp/portage/gimp-1.2.3-r2/work/gimp-1.2.3/plug-ins/perl -I../../.. -I/var/tmp/portage/gimp-1.2.3-r2/work/gimp-1.2.3/plug-ins/perl/../.. -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -DGTK_DISABLE_COMPAT_H -I/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/PDL/Core -s -march=i686 -O3 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -s -march=i686 -O3 -pipe -DVERSION=\"1.211\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.211\" -fpic -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i686-linux/CORE -Ddatadir="\"/usr/share\"" -DHAVE_PDL=1 Lib.c
Seemed that the 'downgrade' from gettext 0.11.1-r1 back to 0.11.1 fixed the problem and libintl.h was now in the right place for gimp to compile <shrug>
