Thanks for all the fixes - I can build both now.  Remaining issues:

  AB_INIT is not present in master, just in 1.8 (I think - I am still a
  git newbie).

  INSTALL is checked in, but gets overwritten by autoreconf.  It seems
  like since this is a generated file it should not be checked in.

  vm branch doesn't build; seems like same gnulib issues as master had.


If you'd like, you can see my build logs at

  http://autobuild.josefsson.org/guile/#guile-x86_64-unknown-netbsd4.99.72