Bruce, I just tracked down one of the problems:
stenn@deacon> grep ag_cv_test_guile_version * config.log:ag_cv_test_guile_version='Backtrace: In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 149: 8 [catch #t #<catch-closure 1f1180> ...] 157: 7 [#<procedure 2458c0 ()>] In unknown file: ?: 6 [catch-closure] In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 63: 5 [call-with-prompt prompt0 ...] In ice-9/eval.scm: 407: 4 [eval # #] 368: 3 [eval # #] 392: 2 [eval # #] In ice-9/popen.scm: 142: 1 [open-pipe* "r" "/usr/local/gnu/bin/pkg-config" "--modversion" "guile-2.0"] In unknown file: ?: 0 [execlp "/usr/local/gnu/bin/pkg-config" "/usr/local/gnu/bin/pkg-config" ...] ERROR: In procedure execlp: ERROR: In procedure execlp: No such file or directory error: ("/usr/local/gnu/bin/pkg-config" "--modversion" "guile-2.0") exited with non-zero error code 1' stenn@deacon> The effect of this is that GUILE_VERSION is empty, so the compile of autogen aborts. H