Incorrect advice about gettext?

[Zack Weinberg]

ABOUT-GCC-NLS says:

# All patches needed for GCC have been incorporated into the official
# gettext CVS. These sources may be accessed via anonymous cvs. The root for
# the gettext CVS is :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.cygnus.com:/cvs/gettext
# Password is `anoncvs' like for the GCC CVS.

Yet:

$ make gcc.pot
PATH=../src:$PATH AWK='mawk' /bin/sh ../../../../gcc_vanilla/gcc/exgettext /usr/bin/xgettext --default-domain=gcc --directory=../../../../gcc_vanilla/gcc \
  --add-comments --keyword=_ --keyword=N_ \
  --files-from=../../../../gcc_vanilla/gcc/po/POTFILES.in --defines \
&& test ! -f gcc.po \
   || ( rm -f ../../../../gcc_vanilla/gcc/po/gcc.pot \
        && mv gcc.po ../../../../gcc_vanilla/gcc/po/gcc.pot )
/usr/bin/xgettext: unrecognized option `--defines'
Try `/usr/bin/xgettext --help' for more information.
mv: cannot stat `gcc.po': No such file or directory
make: *** [../../../../gcc_vanilla/gcc/po/gcc.pot] Error 1

$ /usr/bin/gettext --version
gettext (GNU gettext) 0.10.36
Copyright (C) 1995-1997, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

There are no source differences between 0.10.36 and the CVS tree
referenced in ABOUT-GCC-NLS.

What's going on here?

zw