Bruce, Thanks a bunch!
First, I don't understand what's going on with libguile.h and __scm.h, but it seems really strange/wrong to me that the ones that get installed need *any* tweaking to work. Second, I tried the latest autogen 'pre' and it built and 'make check' went fine on freebsd and debian, and it built fine under Solaris but we had two "check" failures - I'll send those to you later. H