First, during configure, this appears configure: WARNING: libc.h: present but cannot be compiled configure: WARNING: libc.h: check for missing prerequisite headers? configure: WARNING: libc.h: see the Autoconf documentation configure: WARNING: libc.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled" configure: WARNING: libc.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result configure: WARNING: libc.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence configure: WARNING: ## -------------------------------- ## configure: WARNING: ## Report this to the guile lists. ## configure: WARNING: ## -------------------------------- ## Then, I have to edit the emitted config.h to remove #define socklen_t int because configure wrongly concludes it is absent from the system headers. It is also the cause of the warning during configure. Then, the build ends during the link step with ld: warning multiple definitions of symbol _locale_charset /local/lib/libintl.dylib(localcharset.o) definition of _locale_charset /local/lib/libiconv.dylib(localcharset.o) definition of _locale_charset ld: common symbols not allowed with MH_DYLIB output format with the -multi_module option /local/lib/libgmp.a(mp_bpl.o) definition of common ___gmp_junk (size 16) /usr/bin/libtool: internal link edit command failed Thanks pat