gettext-0.11.5: build failures on Sun Solaris 2.7 and 2.8

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

gettext-0.11.5 got build failures on Sun Solaris 2.7 and 2.8 like this
(gcc is version 2.95.3):

gcc -shared intl-compat.lo bindtextdom.lo dcgettext.lo dgettext.lo \
        gettext.lo finddomain.lo loadmsgcat.lo localealias.lo textdomain.lo \
        l10nflist.lo explodename.lo dcigettext.lo dcngettext.lo dngettext.lo \
        ngettext.lo plural.lo plural-exp.lo localcharset.lo localename.lo \
        osdep.lo -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib \
        -L/usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so -lc -lc -Wl,-rpath \
        -Wl,-soname -Wl,libintl.so.2 -o .libs/libintl.so.2.2.0
/usr/local/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/bin/ld: cannot open libintl.so.2: No such file 
or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [libintl.la] Error 1

I'm unclear about why this happens; builds of gettext-0.11.5 on several
other UNIX flavors here succeeded.

We have these previous library versions installed:      

        /usr/local/lib/libintl.a
        /usr/local/lib/libintl.la
        /usr/local/lib/libintl.so
        /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.1
        /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.1.0.1

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