guile-1.6.3: build feedback

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

The guile-1.6.3 build attempts here were largely a miserable failure.

I have so far had successful builds only on two systems:

        Apple PowerPC G3 267MHz GNU/Linux 2.2.18-4hpmac (Red Hat Linux/PPC 2000 
Q4)
        Intel Pentium III       GNU/Linux 2.4.18-18.8.0smp (Red Hat 8.0 
(Psyche))

with failures on at least nine (with two others still in progress):

        Apple PowerPC G4 267MHz Darwin 6.3 (MacOS 10.2.3)
        Compaq Alpha Sierra     OSF/1 5.1
        Compaq/DEC Alpha        OSF/1 4.0F
        IBM PowerPC             AIX 4.2
        Intel Pentium II        FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #0
        SGI Origin 200          IRIX 6.5
        Sun SPARC               Solaris 2.7
        Sun SPARC               Solaris 2.8
        Sun SPARC               Solaris 2.9

Here is a brief summary of the failures:

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Apple PowerPC G4 267MHz Darwin 6.3 (MacOS 10.2.3)
gcc: unrecognized option `-keep_private_externs'
gcc: /usr/local/lib/libguile-ltdl.1.dylib: No such file or directory
gcc: 2: No such file or directory
gcc: 2.0: No such file or directory
gcc: unrecognized option `-compatibility_version'
gcc: unrecognized option `-current_version'
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Compaq Alpha Sierra     OSF/1 5.1
Testing 
/uufs/inscc.utah.edu/common/home/mthnhb/alpha/build/guile-1.6.3/pre-inst-guile 
... 
with 
GUILE_LOAD_PATH=/uufs/inscc.utah.edu/common/home/mthnhb/alpha/build/guile-1.6.3/test-suite
ERROR: In procedure fport_fill_input:
ERROR: Is a directory
FAIL: check-guile
===================
1 of 1 tests failed
===================
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Compaq/DEC Alpha        OSF/1 4.0F
Testing /export/home/0023/build-alpha-osf1/guile-1.6.3/pre-inst-guile ... 
with GUILE_LOAD_PATH=/export/home/0023/build-alpha-osf1/guile-1.6.3/test-suite
ERROR: Unbound variable: !

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