diff -urN gstreamer-0.10.17.orig/po/Makefile.in.in gstreamer-0.10.17/po/Makefile.in.in
--- gstreamer-0.10.17.orig/po/Makefile.in.in	2008-01-25 16:21:31.000000000 +0100
+++ gstreamer-0.10.17/po/Makefile.in.in	2008-09-08 14:41:21.000000000 +0200
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 INSTALL = @INSTALL@
 INSTALL_DATA = @INSTALL_DATA@
 MKINSTALLDIRS = @MKINSTALLDIRS@
-mkinstalldirs = $(SHELL) `case "$(MKINSTALLDIRS)" in /*) echo "$(MKINSTALLDIRS)" ;; *) echo "$(top_builddir)/$(MKINSTALLDIRS)" ;; esac`
+mkinstalldirs = $(SHELL) $(top_srcdir)/mkinstalldirs
 
 GMSGFMT = @GMSGFMT@
 MSGFMT = @MSGFMT@