Hi Richard,

> My attempt to build denemo using GUB got to this point when my outgoing
> email broke down. I'd like to pursue this (especially if Nils' system is
> too modern for GUB to cope with).

There's a glibc-2.10 fix in master...

> Are you able to suggest the next move (the files you asked for were
> attached to the email that was delayed)?

No, nothing much there [did you look at those files?].  It seems that
most interesting stuff may be in

   build/gettext-0.15/gettext-runtime/config* and
   build/gettext-0.15/gettext-runtime/libasprintf/config*

I'm sorry and embarrassed that GUB does not build ootb on your
system... but this is getting a bit debugging through a keyhole.
It would help a lot if you could investigate those files
(I mean, this is plain autotools and build stuff, you can do that?),
I'd start with looking at

    target/tools/build/gettext-0.15/libtool
    target/tools/build/gettext-0.15/gettext-runtime/libasprint/Makefile

if 

   target/tools/build/gettext-0.15/gettext-runtime/libasprint/lib-asprintf.lo
   target/tools/build/gettext-0.15/gettext-runtime/libasprint/lib-asprintf.o
   target/tools/build/gettext-0.15/gettext-runtime/libasprint/libasprintf.la
    target/tools/build/gettext-0.15/gettext-runtime/libasprint/.libs/libasprintf.a
etc exist -- and what happens if you do things like

   cd target/tools/build/gettext-0.15/gettext-runtime/libasprint;
   make libasprintf.la

Here's a tar-up of my src/ and build/ gettext:

  http://lilypond.org/blog/janneke/software/denemo/gettext-build.tar.gz

Greetings,
Jan.