Hello, http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-trail&database=gdb&pr=761 I went shopping for solutions and found that GCC: - generated the catalog (instead of hard wiring it in configure.in) - the output is put in the _build_ directory (instead of RO srcdir) and more-or-less borrowed the code. However, GCC's code also: - insisted on using ../intl/ I didn't borrow that - GDB will still use an installed intl/ (I'm wondering if its time to boot intl/ out of GDB's distro). Andrew