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OK, I grabbed the archive -rw-rw-r-- 1 telford telford 614785 Apr 21 13:51 guile-1.2.tar.gz from the GNU site, did a default configure followed by make and make install -- no problems. guile -v gives me: Guile 1.2 Copyright (c) 1995, 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation Guile may be distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence; certain other uses are permitted as well. For details, see the file `COPYING', which is included in the Guile distribution. There is no warranty, to the extent permitted by law. which is all expected. Opening my scheme book at a random page and invoking the guile program to test out a simple scheme example, I type: (define 'value 2112) My scheme book says this should give an error but doesn't say which error exactly, guile gives no error at all but something seems strange because when I try to quit with ^D, I find myself in an endless loop of: ERROR: Unbound variable: debug ERROR: Unbound variable: debug ERROR: Unbound variable: debug ERROR: Unbound variable: debug ERROR: Unbound variable: debug ERROR: Unbound variable: debug ERROR: Unbound variable: debug Am I off to a bad start here? Should I stick to examples that are not supposed to give errors? I'd love to be more helpful and make a guess at what the problem is but at this stage I'm still pretty clueless. - Tel