PV_SITE = http://www.ivarch.com/programs/sources
PV_LICENSE = Artistic-2.0
PV_LICENSE_FILES = doc/COPYING
-PV_DEPENDENCIES = $(if $(BR2_NEEDS_GETTEXT_IF_LOCALE),gettext)
+
+# pv configure script is somewhat stupid: if it cannot find the host
+# gettext tool msgfmt, it concludes that gettext is not available, and
+# provides its own minimal version. Unfortunately, this minimal
+# version conflicts with the available target gettext. We fix this by
+# ensuring that host-gettext is built if gettext support is enabled;
+PV_DEPENDENCIES = $(if $(BR2_NEEDS_GETTEXT_IF_LOCALE),gettext host-gettext)
# While 'pv' uses autoconf, it does not use automake for its
# makefiles. It uses $(LD) $(LDFLAGS) to achieve partial linking, but