diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 319831b..42295da 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ help text string  "Page N of M"  to allow  translations of the form  "Of M
 pages, this is page N".  In addition,  newer versions of lib/getopt.c have
 different strings.  All translations have been updated as a result.
 
+Removed the obsolete Gnulib gettext module.
+
 Migrated the source code repository  from Subversion  to Git.  Updated the
 documentation to suit,  and also listed  specific required version numbers
 for the Autoconf and Automake tools.
diff --git a/m4/gnulib-cache.m4 b/m4/gnulib-cache.m4
index e74817f..d28c84d 100644
--- a/m4/gnulib-cache.m4
+++ b/m4/gnulib-cache.m4
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 
 
 # Specification in the form of a command-line invocation:
-#   gnulib-tool --import --lib=libgnu --source-base=lib --m4-base=m4 --doc-base=doc --tests-base=tests --aux-dir=build-aux --conditional-dependencies --no-libtool --macro-prefix=gl assert btowc config-h crc getopt-gnu gettext gettext-h gettimeofday locale mbrtowc mbsrtowcs stdbool stdio striconv string strstr sys_stat sys_time unistd wchar wcrtomb wcsdup wctob wctype-h
+#   gnulib-tool --import --lib=libgnu --source-base=lib --m4-base=m4 --doc-base=doc --tests-base=tests --aux-dir=build-aux --conditional-dependencies --no-libtool --macro-prefix=gl assert btowc config-h crc getopt-gnu gettext-h gettimeofday locale mbrtowc mbsrtowcs stdbool stdio striconv string strstr sys_stat sys_time unistd wchar wcrtomb wcsdup wctob wctype-h
 
 # Specification in the form of a few gnulib-tool.m4 macro invocations:
 gl_LOCAL_DIR([])
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ gl_MODULES([
   config-h
   crc
   getopt-gnu
-  gettext
   gettext-h
   gettimeofday
   locale