--- xchat-2.8.8/configure.in~	2019-12-06 00:04:24.000000000 +0100
+++ xchat-2.8.8/configure.in	2019-12-06 00:05:01.988198798 +0100
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(GETTEXT_PACKAGE,"$GETTEXT_PACKAGE",[Gettext package name])
 
 ALL_LINGUAS="be ca cs de el es fi fr gl hu it ja kn ko lt mk nl pa pl pt ru sq sr sv th uk vi zh_CN zh_TW"
-AM_GNU_GETTEXT
+AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external])
 
 dnl displaced from acconfig.h
 AH_VERBATIM([OLD_PERL],[#undef OLD_PERL])
@@ -790,7 +790,6 @@
 plugins/python/Makefile
 plugins/perl/Makefile
 plugins/tcl/Makefile
-intl/Makefile
 po/Makefile.in
 ])