diff -urN coot-0.3.3.orig/macros/guile-gtk.m4 coot-0.3.3/macros/guile-gtk.m4
--- coot-0.3.3.orig/macros/guile-gtk.m4	2007-08-15 12:20:04.000000000 -0700
+++ coot-0.3.3/macros/guile-gtk.m4	2007-08-15 12:20:32.000000000 -0700
@@ -66,9 +66,9 @@
    # we have the variable coot_gtk2 in configure.in, which is either TRUE or FALSE
    # Let's use that here.  Perhaps there is a better (set by gtk macro?) variable?
    if test $coot_gtk2 = TRUE ; then
-	GUILE_GTK_LIBS=$guile_gtk_prefix/lib/libguilegtk-2.0.la
+	GUILE_GTK_LIBS="-L$guile_gtk_prefix/lib -lguilegtk-2.0"
    else 
-	GUILE_GTK_LIBS=$guile_gtk_prefix/lib/libguilegtk-1.2.la
+	GUILE_GTK_LIBS="-L$guile_gtk_prefix/lib -lguilegtk-1.2"
    fi
    # do we need to set this in fact?
    GUILE_GTK_CFLAGS="-I$guile_gtk_prefix/include"