cygwin guile is broken

[Matt Yu]

It seems that guile just doesn't work on cygwin anymore.  I get the 
following message with versions 1.6.7 and the 1.7 versions.
ERROR: In procedure make-struct-layout:
> ERROR: Wrong type argument in position 1 (expecting STRINGP): pw

I tried to go back to an old version by downloading the sources first for a 
1.4 version and then an older 1.6 version but none of these compile on 
cygwin, which seems to be fairly typical for cygwin.  No one wants to 
support it.  It's a shame too because of all the depencies on guile.

Here is where the make fails for 1.6.4 for example
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. -g -O2 -Wall 
-Wmissing-prototypes -MT guile-ltdl.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/guile-ltdl.Tpo -c 
guile-ltdl.c  -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC -o .libs/guile-ltdl.lo
In file included from guile-ltdl.c:44:
raw-ltdl.c:167: error: external linkage required for symbol 'lt_dlmalloc' 
because of 'dllexport' attribute.
raw-ltdl.c:169: error: external linkage required for symbol 'lt_dlrealloc' 
because of 'dllexport' attribute.
raw-ltdl.c:171: error: external linkage required for symbol 'lt_dlfree' 
because of 'dllexport' attribute.
make[3]: *** [guile-ltdl.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/guile-1.6.4/libguile-ltdl'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/guile-1.6.4/libguile-ltdl'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/guile-1.6.4'
make: *** [all] Error 2

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