Can't build gettext 0.17 on Debian stable

[Santiago Vila]

Hello. While trying to build gettext 0.17 on a Debian stable system
(4.0 aka etch) I get this:

[...]
/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile gcc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" 
-DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/lib\" 
-DBUILDING_LIBINTL -DBUILDING_DLL -DIN_LIBINTL -DENABLE_RELOCATABLE=1 
-DIN_LIBRARY -DINSTALLDIR=\"/usr/lib\" -DNO_XMALLOC 
-Dset_relocation_prefix=libintl_set_relocation_prefix 
-Drelocate=libintl_relocate -DDEPENDS_ON_LIBICONV=1 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. 
-I../../gettext-runtime/intl -I..  -g -Wall -D_REENTRANT -O2  
../../gettext-runtime/intl/bindtextdom.c
libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
make[4]: *** [bindtextdom.lo] Error 1
make[4]: se sale del directorio `/tmp/gettext-0.17/gettext-tools/intl'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: se sale del directorio `/tmp/gettext-0.17/gettext-tools'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: se sale del directorio `/tmp/gettext-0.17/gettext-tools'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: se sale del directorio `/tmp/gettext-0.17'
make: *** [build] Error 2

The architecture is amd64, but I have not have a fast i386 machine to
test it right now.

Thanks.