Hi guilers, hoping this might help you, i have tried to the snapshot guile-master-20100617, but with the following issue I manually installed ii libgc-dev 1:7.1-3 ii libgc1c2 1:7.1-3 also, libffi is present: ii libffi-dev 3.0.9-2 libffi5 3.0.9-2 libffi5-dbg 3.0.9-2 ;; -- david@rascar:/usr/local/src/guile-master-20100617 41 $ ./make ... ... mv -f .deps/guile-guile.Tpo .deps/guile-guile.Po /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -std=gnu99 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wundef -Wswitch-enum -fvisibility=hidden -g -O2 -o guile guile-guile.o libguile-2.0.la -lgc -lunistring -lcrypt -lm -lltdl libtool: link: gcc -std=gnu99 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wundef -Wswitch-enum -fvisibility=hidden -g -O2 -o .libs/guile guile-guile.o ./.libs/libguile-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgc.so /usr/lib/libunistring.so -lcrypt -lm /usr/lib/libltdl.so ./.libs/libguile-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_type_pointer' ./.libs/libguile-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_type_float' ./.libs/libguile-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_type_void' ./.libs/libguile-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_type_sint64' ./.libs/libguile-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_prep_cif' ./.libs/libguile-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_type_uint32' ./.libs/libguile-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_type_double' ./.libs/libguile-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_call' ./.libs/libguile-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_type_sint8' ./.libs/libguile-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_type_uint8' ./.libs/libguile-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_type_sint32' ./.libs/libguile-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_type_uint16' ./.libs/libguile-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_type_sint16' ./.libs/libguile-2.0.so: undefined reference to `ffi_type_uint64' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [guile] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/guile-master-20100617/libguile' make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/guile-master-20100617/libguile' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/guile-master-20100617' make: *** [all] Error 2 david@rascar:/usr/local/src/guile-master-20100617 42 $