--- configure	Sat Aug 25 17:05:23 2001
+++ /configure	Mon Aug 27 09:06:23 2001
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
 #
 # Changes in reversed order:
 #
+# 2001/08/27 by Johannes Feigl
+# - added manual selection of language
+#
 # 2001/08/22 by Nick Kurshev
 # - added autodetection of local language
 #
@@ -126,6 +129,7 @@
 	--prefix=DIR		use this prefix for installing mplayer [/usr/local]
 	--datadir=DIR           use this prefix for installing machine independent
 				data [/usr/local/share/mplayer] 
+	--language=LANGUAGE	selects manual a language, e.g. de, en, hu, pl, ...
 	--enable-debug[=1-3]	compile debugging information into mplayer [disable]
 	--enable-profile	compile profiling information into mplayer [disable]
 	--enable-largefiles	build with support for files >2^32 bytes long [disable]
@@ -213,6 +217,9 @@
   --as=*)
         _as=`echo $ac_option | cut -d '=' -f 2`
         ;;
+  --language=*)
+        LINGUAS=`echo $ac_option | cut -d '=' -f 2`
+	;;
   --disable-gcc-checking)
         _skip_cc_check=yes
 	;;
@@ -735,6 +742,7 @@
 echo Checking for language ... "$LINGUAS"
 _mp_help="help_mp-"$LINGUAS".h"
 if test ! -f "$_mp_help"; then
+echo "Language file ("$_mp_help") not found!"
 LINGUAS="en"
 _mp_help="help_mp-"$LINGUAS".h"
 fi