--- configure.in.orig	2004-11-07 22:12:27.000000000 +0000
+++ configure.in	2004-11-07 22:11:58.000000000 +0000
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@
 esac
 
 if test "x$found_iconv" = "xno" ; then
-   AC_MSG_ERROR([*** No iconv() implementation found in C library or libiconv])
+   AC_MSG_RESULT([*** No iconv() implementation found in C library or libiconv. Using stubs])
 fi
 
 dnl
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@
 GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT
 
 if test "$gt_cv_have_gettext" != "yes" ; then
-  AC_MSG_ERROR([
+  AC_MSG_RESULT([*** For some unknown reason somebody thinks ***
 *** 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
 ])