If LINGUAS is set to e.g. "fi" no locales gets installed into DESTDIR. This is a known bug in intltool 0.40.6, and fixed long ago in upstream's version control. If your distribution is still shipping it, please make them not.. it's been a known issue for months (and the reason why we are hardmasking 0.40.6 and allowing users to install 0.40.5 which works fine instead) Upstream intltool bug, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577133 Downstream intltool bug, http://bugs.gentoo.org/264114 Downstream -weather bug, https://bugs.gentoo.org/277255
To reproduce: export LINGUAS="fi" & build & install :)
Next version will be released with a newer version (currently planned: 0.41.1)