Something is very weird with your build system.  Note the following line
from configure.in:

ALL_LINGUAS="es sv"

I.e., it should not even try to do anything for locale de.  Do you have a
LINGUAS file lying around?

(And something is up with the build log.  Some of the final few lines appear
to be reordered.)

in my .jhbuildrc

os.environ['LINGUAS'] = 'es de' 

there is no LINGUAS file lying around. build fails on e fresh cvs checkout.

when I remove the LINGUAS env variable the build succeeds.

odd

LINGUAS="es de" ./autogen.sh

and build succeeds


if I put the os.environ line back it build fails again

That would make it a jhbuild bug.  (Two, if you count the reordering in
comment #1.)

jhbuild should not extend the set of languages of a package beyond the
set availble.

Moving to jhbuild.

Isn't this intltool bug 342500 ?

It entirely is. You are a genius.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 342500 ***