guile-1.6: fails to configure within the MinGW environment

[Peter Nobis]

Subject: guile-1.6: fails to configure within the MinGW environment
Package: guile-1.6
Version: 1.6.4-4ubuntu1
Severity: serious
Justification: no longer builds from source

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./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc
checking for restartable system calls... configure: error: cannot run test
program while cross compiling

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1-3-386
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages guile-1.6 depends on:
ii  guile-1.6-libs            1.6.4-4ubuntu1 Main Guile libraries
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-22   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libguile-ltdl-1           1.6.4-4ubuntu1 Guile's patched version of libtool
ii  libqthreads-12            1.6.4-4ubuntu1 QuickThreads library for Guile

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