I took the statically compiled guile again on my powerpc machine and I deleted the whole lib directory (ins)efraim@g4:~/guile-static$ ./bin/guile --help guile: warning: failed to install locale ;;; note: auto-compilation is enabled, set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0 ;;; or pass the --no-auto-compile argument to disable. ;;; compiling /home/efraim/guile-static/share/guile/2.2/ice-9/command-line.scm ;;; compiling /home/efraim/guile-static/share/guile/2.2/system/base/compile.scm ;;; it seems /home/efraim/guile-static/share/guile/2.2/system/base/compile.scm ;;; is part of the compiler; skipping auto-compilation ;;; compiling /home/efraim/guile-static/share/guile/2.2/system/base/syntax.scm ;;; WARNING: compilation of /home/efraim/guile-static/share/guile/2.2/system/base/syntax.scm failed: ;;; In procedure variable-ref: variable is unbound: #> <..snip..> ;;; WARNING: compilation of /home/efraim/guile-static/share/guile/2.2/system/vm/linker.scm failed: ;;; no such language cps ;;; compiled /home/efraim/.cache/guile/ccache/2.2-BE-4-3.A/home/efraim/guile-static/share/guile/2.2/ice-9/command-line.scm.go Usage: guile [OPTION]... [FILE]... Evaluate code with Guile, interactively or from a script. [-s] FILE load source code from FILE, and exit -c EXPR evalute expression EXPR, and exit -- stop scanning arguments; run interactively <..snip..> So I guess I should see if there are specific .go files I should delete instead of all of them. -- Efraim Flashner אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted