diff --git a/INSTALL.windows b/INSTALL.windows
index 6265527a7..77cb1ac8e 100644
--- a/INSTALL.windows
+++ b/INSTALL.windows
@@ -78,10 +78,6 @@ There are three ways to create binaries of this package for Microsoft Windows:
    (api-ms-win*.dll) through the Windows Update mechanism, see
    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2999226 .
 
-   Another constraint is that shared libraries built as part of this package
-   may not work (at least with MSVC 14.0).  Therefore, you will need to pass
-   the configure option '--disable-shared' when building this package.
-
    This recipe requires MS Visual C/C++ 9.0 or newer.
    You don't need the Visual Studio IDE, just the C/C++ tool chain.
    As of 2016, you can install the MS Visual C/C++ 14.0 tool chain from
diff --git a/gettext-runtime/intl/Makefile.am b/gettext-runtime/intl/Makefile.am
index 6ed35ead3..b41676aaa 100644
--- a/gettext-runtime/intl/Makefile.am
+++ b/gettext-runtime/intl/Makefile.am
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ install-exec-local: install-exec-libintl
 install-exec-libintl: libintl.la
 	$(mkdir_p) $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)
 	$(LIBTOOL) --mode=install \
-	  $(INSTALL_DATA) libintl.la $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/libintl.la; \
+	  $(INSTALL) libintl.la $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/libintl.la; \
 	if test "@RELOCATABLE@" = yes; then \
 	  dependencies=`sed -n -e 's,^dependency_libs=\(.*\),\1,p' < $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/libintl.la | sed -e "s,^',," -e "s,'\$$,,"`; \
 	  if test -n "$$dependencies"; then \