Comment 7 for bug 1496105

By "upgrade gettext", do you just mean bump the minimum required in autogen.sh from 0.14 to 0.18 or 0.19? Do we need to change anything else? If that is all we need to do then sure, lets bump it up but perhaps we can use the minimum version we actually need.

The reason for the old maintainer mode stuff was to try and minimize extra tools users needed to build.

I'd assume the reason for the with included gettext bit is for helping reduce dependencies on external libs.