Jody:
To ensure successful builds, GARNOME has been re-intltoolizing some modules to fix up recent b0rkages with new intltool and the missing perl modules. Here's a list of the current b0rky tarballs in the desktop, platform and proposed categories...office/gnumericnewer intltool breaks gnumeric and anything else with entities in strings. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127218 I am using older intltool's on purpose.
These problems should be fixed in version 0.29 of intltool. Denis tested with gnumeric and everything seems to now work. Let me know if you have further troubles. Also, I'd like to apologize to the various maintainers for the OrigTree.pm chaos with intltool. That was my fault. As Kenneth said, we really have been trying to do our best. -- Brian