I applied a change * configure.in (CC_FOR_BUILD): Use AC_ARG_VAR. This gets CC_FOR_BUILD described in ./configure --help, and preserves its value across reconfigures. Unless anyone is very attached to --with-cc-for-build, I'd suggest removing that option and just leave the CC_FOR_BUILD variable. The latter is moderately standard (eg. config.guess uses it), and an extra guile specific option won't really add much.