diff --git a/SConstruct b/SConstruct
index a38fd98e905..8dfbcc1748c 100755
--- a/SConstruct
+++ b/SConstruct
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ for repo in Dir(".").repositories:
   # source code root and supplying this path with -Y option.
   toolpath.append(repo.abspath + "/scons")
 sys.path = toolpath + sys.path
-env = Environment(tools=["tar", "gettext", "install", "python_devel", "scanreplace"], options = opts, toolpath = toolpath)
+env = Environment(tools=["tar", "gettext_tool", "install", "python_devel", "scanreplace"], options = opts, toolpath = toolpath)
 
 if env["lockfile"]:
     print("Creating lockfile")
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ def Warning(message):
 
 from metasconf import init_metasconf
 configure_args = dict(
-    custom_tests = init_metasconf(env, ["ieee_754", "cplusplus", "python_devel", "sdl", "boost", "cairo", "pango", "pkgconfig", "gettext", "lua"]),
+    custom_tests = init_metasconf(env, ["ieee_754", "cplusplus", "python_devel", "sdl", "boost", "cairo", "pango", "pkgconfig", "gettext_tool", "lua"]),
     config_h = "$build_dir/config.h",
     log_file="$build_dir/config.log", conf_dir="$build_dir/sconf_temp")
 
diff --git a/scons/gettext.py b/scons/gettext_tool.py
similarity index 100%
rename from scons/gettext.py
rename to scons/gettext_tool.py