Use standard shared library versioning. Do not remove static library after building. This was also a race if MAKE_JOBS > 1. Index: gettext-tools/gnulib-lib/Makefile.in --- gettext-tools/gnulib-lib/Makefile.in.orig +++ gettext-tools/gnulib-lib/Makefile.in @@ -3542,7 +3542,7 @@ libgettextlib_la_LDFLAGS = $(AM_LDFLAGS) -no-undefined $(LIB_HARD_LOCALE) $(LIB_MBRTOWC) $(LIB_POSIX_SPAWN) \ $(LIB_SETLOCALE) $(LIB_SETLOCALE_NULL) $(LOG10_LIBM) \ $(LTLIBICONV) $(LTLIBINTL) $(LTLIBUNISTRING) $(POW_LIBM) \ - @INTL_MACOSX_LIBS@ -release @VERSION@ $(am__append_3) \ + @INTL_MACOSX_LIBS@ $(am__append_3) \ $(am__append_8) $(am__append_25) $(am__append_26) # Use this preprocessor expression to decide whether #include_next works. @@ -4553,7 +4553,7 @@ fcntl.h: fcntl.in.h $(top_builddir)/config.status $(CX @GL_GENERATE_GETOPT_CDEFS_H_FALSE@ rm -f $@ # No need to install libgettextlib.a, except on AIX. -install-exec-local: install-libLTLIBRARIES install-exec-clean +install-exec-local: install-libLTLIBRARIES install-exec-clean: case "@host_os@" in \ aix*) ;; \