Created attachment 370284 [details]
Output from trying to "make" guile-1.8.7 from tarball.

(Disclaimer:  This is actually happening on a F11 rawhide-updated system, not pure F12 yet.  So it's possible it's a S/W mismatch issue of some kind.)

Downloading the guile-1.8.7 tarball from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/guile/, and doing the basic configure/make combo yields (the tail end):

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cat alist.doc arbiters.doc async.doc backtrace.doc boolean.doc chars.doc continuations.doc debug.doc deprecation.doc deprecated.doc discouraged.doc dynl.doc dynwind.doc environments.doc eq.doc error.doc eval.doc evalext.doc extensions.doc feature.doc fluids.doc fports.doc futures.doc gc.doc goops.doc gsubr.doc gc-mark.doc gc-segment.doc gc-malloc.doc gc-card.doc guardians.doc hash.doc hashtab.doc hooks.doc i18n.doc init.doc ioext.doc keywords.doc lang.doc list.doc load.doc macros.doc mallocs.doc modules.doc numbers.doc objects.doc objprop.doc options.doc pairs.doc ports.doc print.doc procprop.doc procs.doc properties.doc random.doc rdelim.doc read.doc root.doc rw.doc scmsigs.doc script.doc simpos.doc smob.doc sort.doc srcprop.doc stackchk.doc stacks.doc stime.doc strings.doc srfi-4.doc srfi-13.doc srfi-14.doc strorder.doc strports.doc struct.doc symbols.doc threads.doc throw.doc values.doc variable.doc vectors.doc version.doc vports.doc weaks.doc ramap.doc unif.doc dynl.doc filesys.doc posix.doc net_db.doc socket.doc regex-posix.doc | GUILE="/home/rpjday/guile-1.8.7/pre-inst-guile" ../scripts/snarf-check-and-output-texi          > guile-procedures.texi || { rm guile-procedures.texi; false; }
ERROR: unknown doc attribute: (location (string . alist.c) (int . 40) (hash . hash))
make[3]: *** [guile-procedures.texi] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/rpjday/guile-1.8.7/libguile'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rpjday/guile-1.8.7/libguile'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rpjday/guile-1.8.7'
make: *** [all] Error 2


  The same error occurs trying to use rpmbuild to build the binary package from the source rpm.  Someone else claims that the problem lies in the use of that "pre-inst-guile" executable for that step, which is created as part of the build.  Replacing that with a call to an already-installed guile executable allegedly solved the problem, so that would suggest that that pre-install version of guile being used as part of the build is broken somehow.

  Again, this isn't a full F12 system, so it might be a package mismatch of some kind.  Knowing that this build works on straight F12 would confirm that.