Comment 2 for bug 571469

Using both autopoint and intltool is fine. You just need to make sure they are called in the correct order. The same issues exist when using glib-gettextize and intltool. It just happens that gnome-common always calls them in the correct order. And that order is that intltoolize must be called after autopoint, gettextize, or glib-gettextize.

The other issue is that autoreconf knows nothing of intltool. You must call intltoolize afterward if you are going to use it. If autoreconf knew about intltoolize, there wouldn't be any issue.