--- util-linux-2.11t/configure.wiget	Tue Jul  9 12:43:58 2002
+++ util-linux-2.11t/configure	Tue Jul  9 12:46:47 2002
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@
 # Many Linux systems do not have "which". Maybe "env" can be used.
 # Writing /usr/bin/xgettext is no good: one may have xgettext elsewhere.
 #
-if (test $MAY_ENABLE_NLS = yes && type xgettext > /dev/null 2>&1); then
+if (test $MAY_ENABLE_NLS = yes && test -x /usr/bin/xgettext > /dev/null 2>&1); then
 	msg=`xgettext --foreign-user 2>&1 | grep unrecognized`
 	if test -n "$msg"; then
 		echo "FOREIGN = " >> make_include