Hello Daniel,

> 1) make distcheck fails. I think the error is not in the tests themselves but in
> the way they are run. One of the commands in tests/unit-tests/Makefile.am produces

I fixed 'make distcheck' and two other things, attached 3 patches ...

Another thing you could do to improve things a little is to use 'm4', in the
configure.ac file, and add an m4 dir to the project, where you would copy (and
distribute it) the latest guile.m4 file: this would allow you to clean the code
related to finding the installed (user) guile's effective version ... 

Also, I did suggest to remove INSTALL from the distribution, but I now think it was
not a good advice :), maybe we should add and distribute it 'again' (because we may
change its content, something I always do in my projects ... as you wish of course).

> 2) I cannot rebuild the documentation. To try this, you have to (assuming you
> build guile-cairo in-tree)

I haven't looked at this.  If you (or someone else) find a solution, ping me,
so I can fix guile-gnome and guile-clutter ...

Cheers,
David