Error compiling gettext 0.10.38 on SCO Openserver 5.0.5

[g . giunta]

Hello,

just wanted to let you know that the stock C library wchar that comes
with SCO Openserver does not provide the mbsinit function. It has a
similar one named sisinit instead (it looks pretty much the same,
except it deos not specify returning non zero for a null pointer input).
The configure script of gettext does not notice this (it just finds
wchar.h and is happy with that), leading to a failure when running make.

I guess the age of the libraries that are provided with Openserver
5.0.5 is to blame, rather than the configuration of gettext, it just
took me an hour to find out.
A work-around in next versions of the lib would be welcome...

Sincerely, Gaetano Giunta