compiling 1.8.0

[Paul Emsley]

Dear Guile users, 

I have a problem compiling/running 1.8.0:

$ ./configure --prefix=$pfx
$ make
$ make install
$ cd $pfx/bin
?$ ./guile
Backtrace:
In unknown file:
     ...
   ?: 123  [list apply ...
   ?: 124*  [list lambda (syntmp-dummy-3 syntmp-name-4 syntmp-rules-5) ...
   ?: 125*   [syntmp-chi-151 #(syntax-object # #) (# # # # ...) ...
   ?: 126*    [syntmp-make-binding-wrap-132 (# # #) ("i" "i" "i") (())]
   ?: 127     (if (null? syntmp-ids-949) syntmp-w-951 ...)
   ?: 128     [cons () ...
   ?: 129*     [cons ...
   ?: 130*      (let* ((syntmp-labelvec-952 #)) (let* (#) (let # #)))
   ?: 131       (let* ((syntmp-n-953 #)) (let (# #) (begin # #)))
          ...
   ?: 132       (begin # #)
   ?: 133*      [syntmp-f-956 (# # #) 0]
   ?: 134       (if (not #) (call-with-values # #))
          ...
   ?: 135       [call-with-values #<procedure #f ()> #<procedure #f #>]
   ?: 136       (@call-with-values (producer consumer))
   ?: 137*      [#<procedure #f ()>]
   ?: 138*      [syntmp-id-sym-name&marks-116 #(syntax-object dummy #) (())]
   ?: 139       (if (syntmp-syntax-object?-101 syntmp-x-980) (values # #) ...)
   ?: 140*      [syntmp-syntax-object?-101 #(syntax-object dummy (# # # shift 
.. .))]
   ?: 141       (and (vector? syntmp-x-1008) (= (vector-length syntmp-x-1008) 
3)  ...)
   ?: 142*      (vector? syntmp-x-1008)

<unnamed port>: In expression (vector? syntmp-x-1008):
<unnamed port>: Stack overflow

This happens on all the computers I've tried to compile 1.8.0 on.
Can you help?

Cheers, 

Paul.