cvs of gnome-libs broke

[jlh geodesic com]

For the last few days, the download of 'gnome-libs' via
'cvs -z3 checkout gnome-libs' and/or
'cvs -z3 update gnome-libs'
has produced an incomplete directory, which will not
configure and compile.  The problem appears to be some
missing files or directories, especially in a subdirectory
called 'intl', where 'Makefile.in' is missing.

Here are some excerpts from the './autogen.sh' command:

...
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/local/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... /usr/local/bin/xgettext
checking for catalogs to be installed...  ca cs da de es fi fr ga it ja ko no pt sv ru pl
hu nl
sed: can't read ./intl/po2tbl.sed.in: No such file or directory
checking for main in -lm... yes
...
creating Makefile
creating po/Makefile.in
creating intl/Makefile
sed: can't read ./intl/Makefile.in: No such file or directory
creating images/Makefile
creating gtk-xmhtml/Makefile
...

and finally, after typing in 'make' anyway:

...
file=./`echo nl | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
  && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH /usr/local/bin/msgfmt -o $file nl.po
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jlh/gnome/tarballs/cvs/gnome-libs/po'
Making all in intl
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jlh/gnome/tarballs/cvs/gnome-libs/intl'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `all'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jlh/gnome/tarballs/cvs/gnome-libs/intl'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jlh/gnome/tarballs/cvs/gnome-libs'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
>

A similar problem occurs with the 'cvs -z3 checkout gnome-core'
download, but one thing at a time ...

Any help appreciated.  Thanks,

John