> Pushed. Still very draft. But that's all I've got from memory, bash
> history and a couple quick retries.

Great job! It feels awesome when the community makes fast progress :)

> I didn't add Guile because I can't remember if it's any different from
> standard autotools procedures (and I already have system guile so I
> can't verify if it needs bootstrap or not).

I've never bootstrapped Guile myself. In his usual style, Wingo has
written an extremely thorough blog post about the whole process:
<https://wingolog.org/archives/2016/01/11/the-half-strap-self-hosting-and-guile>.

"the half strap" is an awesome technical term. I wonder if it's used
outside Guile?