the current mess is that libtool allows things to link because of the .la, but the configure script, as usual, fucks up, because it tries to link directly, so both -lintl and -lX11 detections fail. kind of sneaky with X11, as some values are cached, so X11 is detected, BUT some other values are not, and they're not cached, so that ends up with a paralytic X11 that misses half the useful functionalities it actually has...