I downloaded the snapshot from http://hydra.nixos.org/build/17611516 and ran into the following problems: My system does not have a libc with threading, so I configured guile and dependencies with --without-threads (or --disable-threads as appropriate). I get the following error: Throw without catch before boot: Error while printing exception: Key: Failed to print exception. Aborting. /bin/sh: line 1: 9643 Broken pipe cat alist.doc arbiters.doc array-handle.doc array-map.doc arrays.doc async.doc backtrace.doc boolean.doc bitvectors.doc bytevectors.doc chars.doc control.doc continuations.doc debug.doc deprecated.doc deprecation.doc dynl.doc dynwind.doc eq.doc error.doc eval.doc evalext.doc expand.doc extensions.doc feature.doc filesys.doc fluids.doc foreign.doc fports.doc gc-malloc.doc gc.doc gettext.doc generalized-arrays.doc generalized-vectors.doc goops.doc gsubr.doc guardians.doc hash.doc hashtab.doc hooks.doc i18n.doc init.doc ioext.doc keywords.doc list.doc load.doc macros.doc mallocs.doc memoize.doc modules.doc numbers.doc objprop.doc options.doc pairs.doc ports.doc print.doc procprop.doc procs.doc promises.doc r6rs-ports.doc random.doc rdelim.doc read.doc root.doc rw.doc scmsigs.doc script.doc simpos.doc smob.doc sort.doc srcprop.doc srfi-1.doc srfi-4.doc srfi-13.doc srfi-14.doc srfi-60.doc stackchk.doc stacks.doc stime.doc strings.doc strorder.doc strports.doc struct.doc symbols.doc threads.doc throw.doc trees.doc unicode.doc uniform.doc values.doc variable.doc vectors.doc version.doc vports.doc weaks.doc dynl.doc posix.doc net_db.doc socket.doc regex-posix.doc 9644 Aborted | GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE=1 GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0 ../meta/uninstalled-env guild snarf-check-and-output-texi > guile-procedures.texi make[3]: *** [guile-procedures.texi] Error 1 make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 gdb suggests that the problem is that iconv fails and sets the error message: "Cannot find thread-local variables on this target" gdb log is attached. config.log is also attached. J' -- PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key.