--- intltool-update.in.in
+++ intltool-update.in.in
@@ -569,7 +569,7 @@
 
     ## Generate the .h header files, so we can allow glade and
     ## xml translation support
-    if (! -x "$EXTRACT")
+    if (0)
     {
 	print STDERR "\n *** The intltool-extract script wasn't found!"
 	     ."\n *** Without it, intltool-update can not generate files.\n";