diff --git a/recipes/tools/gettext/recipe.toml b/recipes/tools/gettext/recipe.toml
index c0658158..8fe8b5a3 100644
--- a/recipes/tools/gettext/recipe.toml
+++ b/recipes/tools/gettext/recipe.toml
@@ -1,11 +1,20 @@
+# GNU gettext utilities are a set of tools that provides a framework to help
+# other GNU packages produce multi-lingual messages.
 [source]
-tar = "https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.21.1.tar.gz"
-blake3 = "0d0af5a79978fbeac4641ee64480943650af99f70467353e7c3068ffd5523acd"
+tar = "https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.22.5.tar.gz"
+blake3 = "cb3f3a34da7ce1a92746df81f5b78c5d53841973a24eb80ab76537263d380ec0"
 patches = [
     "redox.patch"
 ]
 script = """
+DYNAMIC_INIT
 wget -O build-aux/config.sub "https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/gnu-config/-/raw/master/config.sub?inline=false"
+( cd gettext-runtime/libasprintf && autoreconf -fvi -I${COOKBOOK_HOST_SYSROOT}/share/aclocal )
+( cd gettext-runtime/intl && autoreconf -fvi -I${COOKBOOK_HOST_SYSROOT}/share/aclocal )
+( cd gettext-runtime && autoreconf -fvi -I${COOKBOOK_HOST_SYSROOT}/share/aclocal )
+( cd gettext-tools && autoreconf -fvi -I${COOKBOOK_HOST_SYSROOT}/share/aclocal )
+( cd libtextstyle && autoreconf -fvi -I${COOKBOOK_HOST_SYSROOT}/share/aclocal )
+autoreconf -fvi -I${COOKBOOK_HOST_SYSROOT}/share/aclocal
 """
 
 [build]
@@ -14,9 +23,10 @@ dependencies = [
     "libiconv"
 ]
 script = """
+DYNAMIC_INIT
 COOKBOOK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS+=(
-    --disable-shared
     --enable-static
+    --enable-shared
     ac_cv_have_decl_program_invocation_name=no
     gt_cv_locale_fr=false
     gt_cv_locale_fr_utf8=false
@@ -26,3 +36,10 @@ COOKBOOK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS+=(
 )
 cookbook_configure
 """
+
+[package]
+shared-deps = [
+  "libgcc",
+  "libiconv"
+]
+