Index: configure.ac
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--- configure.ac.orig	2010-06-06 14:49:57.000000000 +0200
+++ configure.ac	2012-09-24 17:28:10.184401496 +0200
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([gettext-tools/src/msgf
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
 . $srcdir/version.sh
 gl_INIT_PACKAGE([gettext], [$VERSION_NUMBER])
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([silent-rules])
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE()
 
 dnl Override automake's tar command used for creating distributions.
 am__tar='${AMTAR} chof - --owner=root --group=root "$$tardir"'