I  have a problem with bind_textdomain_codeset and glib_gettext.m4:

Gnome2 gnumeric wants bind_textdomain_codeset from gettext. libc on my
system, (RH 6.2) has bindtextdomain, but not bind_textdomain_codeset. I've 
upgraded gettext to 0.10.40, and tweaked it to build libintl, which exports
bind_textdomain_codeset. When I manually add -lintl to the link line,
gnumeric links.

However, the configure script doesn't include '-lintl'.

Gnumeric uses glib_gettext.m4 to configure gettext related stuff. I believe
the macro should look for bind_textdomain_codeset, and look for it in extra
libraries if it can't find it in libc. (Are there other possibilites beside
libintl?) This is why I am assigning the bug report to glib.

gtk+ and some other packages have the config variable
HAVE_BIND_TEXTDOMAIN_CODESET. But gnumeric and, I believe, many other 
Gnome 2 components need bind_textdomain_codeset to work properly. 

This is a problem for all platforms which don't use a very recent gnu libc,
e.g. BSD, Solaris, and old Linuxes.