Guile-SDL is developed with and tested against the Guile 1.4.x series: http://www.gnuvola.org/software/guile/ That is, "make && make check && make install" complete successfully for Guile 1.4.x, and the demo programs in this directory run w/o incident. For other versions of Guile, you may encounter problems. For Guile 1.6.0 "installed from RPMs" Paul Osmialowski provides: http://ai.king.net.pl/guile-1.6-missing-tools.tar.gz