Here is a patch against guile-1.6.1 to add pkg-config support. This is noninvasive - it doesn't require pkg-config to be installed to build guile, or even to run the autogen.sh. pkg-config haters, should there be any, will just see a small turd in $(prefix)/lib/pkgconfig/guile.pc. The file won't be useful without pkg-config installed, of course, but this gives users a choice of configuration means. I have not tested building programs using pkgconfig instead of guile-config, but they give almost the same output (pkgconfig moves all the -L to the front, and allows one to ask for -L separate from -l). Greg Troxel