diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index ee95764c..82670796 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+linkchecker (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * i18n gettext data compilation fixed
+
+ -- Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@users.sourceforge.net>  Thu,  7 Dec 2000 12:24:38 +0100
+
 linkchecker (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * changed specification and better documentation of intern/extern
diff --git a/po/Makefile b/po/Makefile
index 00ba98ed..9a20a08b 100644
--- a/po/Makefile
+++ b/po/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 # we use the scripts in Tools/i18n of the Python 2.0 distribution
 I18NTOOLS=.
 GETTEXT=python $(I18NTOOLS)/pygettext.py
-MSGFMT=python $(I18NTOOLS)/msgfmt.py
+#MSGFMT=python $(I18NTOOLS)/msgfmt.py
+MSGFMT=msgfmt
 MSGMERGE=msgmerge
 SOURCES=\
 ../linkcheck/Config.py \
@@ -36,7 +37,8 @@ all:
 	touch .time.pot
 
 %.mo:	%.po
-	$(MSGFMT) $< && mv $@ ../locale/$*/LC_MESSAGES/$(PACKAGE).mo
-	
+	$(MSGFMT) $< -o $@ && mkdir -p ../locale/$*/LC_MESSAGES && mv $@ ../locale/$*/LC_MESSAGES/$(PACKAGE).mo
+
 clean:
 	rm -f .time.pot
+	rm -rf ../locale
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index bafee5ec..d6886b3e 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ myname = "Bastian Kleineidam"
 myemail = "calvin@users.sourceforge.net"
 
 setup (name = "LinkChecker",
-       version = "1.2.9",
+       version = "1.2.10",
        description = "check HTML documents for broken links",
        author = myname,
        author_email = myemail,