diff --git a/plug-ins/perl/Changes b/plug-ins/perl/Changes
index dce5eb8ab5..1fbabeaa29 100644
--- a/plug-ins/perl/Changes
+++ b/plug-ins/perl/Changes
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ Revision history for Gimp-Perl extension.
         - applied libintl fix by yasuhiro@awa.tohoku.ac.jp.
         - applied save_image/PNG-noextra switch patch by pkaempf@box.echo.ch.
         - applied Perl-Server reuseaddress fix by gphan@webjuice.com.
+        - corrected the libintl fix to really work.
+        - added fr and ru translations.
 
 1.19  Thu Jan  6 00:21:58 CET 2000
         - used N_ to mark all the menu paths, since gimp now tries to
diff --git a/plug-ins/perl/MANIFEST b/plug-ins/perl/MANIFEST
index e23c94c389..1ad9f5150a 100644
--- a/plug-ins/perl/MANIFEST
+++ b/plug-ins/perl/MANIFEST
@@ -134,5 +134,7 @@ po/de.po
 po/it.po
 po/cs.po
 po/no.po
+po/fr.po
+po/ru.po
 po/update.sh
 
diff --git a/plug-ins/perl/Makefile.PL b/plug-ins/perl/Makefile.PL
index d2f988b387..07aafdf51d 100644
--- a/plug-ins/perl/Makefile.PL
+++ b/plug-ins/perl/Makefile.PL
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ WriteMakefile(
     		    'Gimp/Module.pm'	=> '$(INST_LIBDIR)/Gimp/Module.pm',
     		    'Gimp/Config.pm'	=> '$(INST_LIBDIR)/Gimp/Config.pm',
     		   },
-    'LDFROM'	=> expand("\$(OBJECT) $LIBS"), # $INTLLIBS
+    'LDFROM'	=> expand("\$(OBJECT) $LIBS $INTLLIBS"),
     'INC'	=> "$INC1 $GIMP_INC_NOUI $CPPFLAGS $CFLAGS",
     'DEFINE'	=> "$DEFINE1 $DEFS",
     'EXE_FILES'	=> [qw(scm2perl scm2scm gimpdoc xcftopnm embedxpm)],
diff --git a/plug-ins/perl/TODO b/plug-ins/perl/TODO
index f73cb52e03..793b4676c0 100644
--- a/plug-ins/perl/TODO
+++ b/plug-ins/perl/TODO
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ firetext! AND _grayscale_ for map_gradient(!)
 sota-chrome pagesize of 2 is _wrong_
 
 bugs
+  * damnit libintl crazy shit
 [DONE]  * alow gimp_selection_shrink with a zero argument.
   * font_text with negative size? bug report #5523
   * gimp-perl list archives.. where and add this to the gimp.html page!
diff --git a/plug-ins/perl/config.pl.in b/plug-ins/perl/config.pl.in
index e180cca1c4..32d4375c9c 100644
--- a/plug-ins/perl/config.pl.in
+++ b/plug-ins/perl/config.pl.in
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 # this is ugly, but it makes Gimp installable from within CPAN
 
-$topdir=".";
+use Cwd 'abs_path';
 
-$topdir.="/.." while ! -f "$topdir/MANIFEST";
+$topdir = ".";
+$topdir .= "/.." while ! -f "$topdir/MANIFEST";
+$topdir = abs_path $topdir;
 
 $^W=0;
 
@@ -67,6 +69,7 @@ while (($k,$v)=each(%cfg)) {
 }
 
 $GIMPTOOL       = expand($GIMPTOOL);
+$INTLLIBS	= expand($INTLLIBS);
 
 if ($IN_GIMP) {
    $GIMP = $bindir."/gimp" if $IN_GIMP;
diff --git a/plug-ins/perl/po/update.sh b/plug-ins/perl/po/update.sh
index 4fa9e7d33a..76fcea21f5 100755
--- a/plug-ins/perl/po/update.sh
+++ b/plug-ins/perl/po/update.sh
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ test -f MANIFEST || exec echo "must be started in plug-ins/perl/po"
    msgmerge -w 83 po/gimp-perl.pot - >gimp-perl.pot~ &&
    mv gimp-perl.pot~ po/gimp-perl.pot
 
-for po in po/*.po; do
-   msgmerge -w 83 $po po/gimp-perl.pot >$po~ && mv $po~ $po
-done
+#for po in po/*.po; do
+#   msgmerge -w 83 $po po/gimp-perl.pot >$po~ && mv $po~ $po
+#done