[Help-smalltalk] gnu-smalltalk 3.4.2 build fails (+ issue tracker web bug)

[Roland Plüss]

Tried to build 3.4.2 on Kubuntu 64bit without success. Wanted to report 
this using the issue tracker but the account creation there is bugged 
(form does not show any captcha fields but complains about missing 
captcha) so I try it this way.

The build seems to fail at the link stage (gst) but I can't make heads 
or tail out of the error message:

>>>
(...)
make[2]: Betrete Verzeichnis '/home/roland/progs/smalltalk-3.2.4'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I./libgst -I./lib-src 
-DCMD_XZIP="\"/usr/bin/zip\"" -DCMD_INSTALL="\"/usr/bin/install -c\"" 
-DCMD_LN_S="\"ln -s\"" 
-DDEFAULT_EXECUTABLE=\""/home/roland/progs/testing/opt/gnu-smalltalk/bin/gst"\"    
-g -O2 -Wall -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-format -Wpointer-arith 
-Wno-pointer-sign -Wwrite-strings -Wno-strict-aliasing -Wno-switch 
-fno-gcse -fstrict-aliasing  -MT main.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/main.Tpo -c -o 
main.o main.c
mv -f .deps/main.Tpo .deps/main.Po
/bin/bash ./libtool --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc  -g -O2 -Wall 
-Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-format -Wpointer-arith 
-Wno-pointer-sign -Wwrite-strings -Wno-strict-aliasing -Wno-switch 
-fno-gcse -fstrict-aliasing  -export-dynamic 
-Wl,-rpath,"\$ORIGIN/../lib"  -L/home/roland/progs/testing/lib -o gst 
main.o libgst/libgst.la lib-src/library.la   -lrt -lm
libtool: link: cannot find name of link library for 
`/home/roland/progs/smalltalk-3.2.4/libc.la'
make[2]: *** [gst] Fehler 1
make[2]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/roland/progs/smalltalk-3.2.4'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1
make[1]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/roland/progs/smalltalk-3.2.4'
make: *** [all] Fehler 2
<<<

Error line is
libtool: link: cannot find name of link library for 
`/home/roland/progs/smalltalk-3.2.4/libc.la'

which doesn't make any sense to me. Any help appreciated.