When you want to hack on guile-gtk in the context of the gnome-guile package you are of course very welcome, but please note the following: Try to make sure that guile-gtk continues to compile outside of gnome-guile. That is, it should be possible to do a "make distcheck" from the guile-gtk/ directory and get a working package. This in turn means that the build cruft in guile-gtk/ should not reference things in ../macro, etc.