RH8 is a can of worms (trying to compile CVS)

After a lot of warnings about deprecated this and that, and malformed 
characters here and there, autogen fails with the following message 
(even with --disable-nls):

config.status: creating intl/Makefile
config.status: error: cannot find input file: intl/Makefile.in

Other interesting parts of autogen's output follow:

(...)
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xa0, with no 
preceding
start byte) at /tmp/ahucxhhz/traces.pl line 436.
autoheader: `config.h.in' is unchanged
Makefile.am:1: AM_GNU_GETTEXT used but `intl' not in SUBDIRS
(...)
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
/usr/src/cvs/xmms/missing: Unknown `--run' option
Try `/usr/src/cvs/xmms/missing --help' for more information
configure: WARNING: `missing' script is too old or missing
(...)

I won't even get into what I got when I tried ./update.pl in the po/ 
subdir. Now I'd just like to be able to compile. Someone at Red Hat did 
compile XMMS under RH8, right? Right?