diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index eaeb090f9..5a2d8c4c3 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2005-10-07  Roland Illig  <roland.illig@gmx.de>
+
+	* configure.ac: Include -lintl if it is needed for
+	libintl_gettext(). Needed for NetBSD-1.6.2.
+
 2005-10-03  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>
 
 	* configure.ac: Require gettext with ngettext support.  It's
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 33abb6cd5..d1fc8baba 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ AC_CHECK_FUNCS([\
 	setreuid setuid statfs strerror strftime sysconf \
 	tcgetattr tcsetattr truncate \
 ])
+AC_CHECK_LIB([intl], [libintl_gettext])
 
 dnl S-Lang needs all four functions to be defined to use POSIX signal API
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS([sigaction sigemptyset sigprocmask sigaddset], , [slang_signals=no])