Error during 'make' in sloop.lisp maxima-5.9.0

My harddrive suffered from a mechanical failure, so I got new drive and
rebuilt  from scratch.  The old system was a dualboot win2000/slackware 8.1
with maxima-5.9.0 installed ... it was working just fine.

Rebuilt system is a dual boot system (win 2000/Slackware 9.0) on a Dell
laptop with a pentium IV chip.  

maxima-5.9.0.tar.gz package unzipped in /usr/local/src/Maxima/maxima-5.9.0

configure with gcl 2.4.4 seems to work fine:

./configure --with-gcl=/usr/bin/gcl

loading cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/ginstall -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for clisp... false
checking for gcl... true
checking POSIX shell to see that it contains getopts... trying /bin/sh
POSIX shell is /bin/sh
updating cache ./config.cache
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
creating maxima-local
creating xmaxima-local
creating maxima.spec
creating maxima.iss
creating src/Makefile
creating src/maxima
creating src/autoconf-variables.lisp
creating lisp-utils/Makefile
creating tests/Makefile
creating doc/Makefile
creating doc/emaxima/Makefile
creating doc/info/Makefile
creating doc/intromax/Makefile
creating doc/man/Makefile
creating doc/man/maxima.1
creating doc/share/Makefile
creating interfaces/Makefile
creating interfaces/emacs/Makefile
creating interfaces/emacs/emaxima/Makefile
creating interfaces/emacs/misc/Makefile
creating interfaces/xmaxima/Makefile
creating interfaces/xmaxima/autoconf-variables.tcl
creating interfaces/xmaxima/Tkmaxima/Header.tcl
creating interfaces/xmaxima/win32/Makefile
creating share/Makefile
creating demo/Makefile
creating plotting/Makefile

Summary:
GCL enabled. Executable name: "gcl"
default lisp: gcl
wish executable name: "wish"

Howver, when I do "make"  I get the following error messages:

Making all in src
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/Maxima/maxima-5.9.0/src'
test -d binary-gcl || mkdir binary-gcl
test -d binary-gcl/numerical || mkdir binary-gcl/numerical
test -d binary-gcl/numerical/slatec || mkdir binary-gcl/numerical/slatec
LISPTYPE=gcl ; export LISPTYPE ;\
GCL=gcl ; export GCL ;\
../lisp-utils/maxima-run-lisp \
        -x '(load "../lisp-utils/defsystem.lisp")(funcall (intern
"OPERATE-ON-SYSTEM" :mk) "maxima" :compile :verbose t)' && \
        ../lisp-utils/maxima-run-lisp \
        -x '(load "../lisp-utils/defsystem.lisp")(funcall (intern
"OPERATE-ON-SYSTEM" :mk) "maxima" :load :verbose t)' \
         -d binary-gcl/maxima
gcl -batch -eval (let ((argv '())) (declare (ignorable argv)) (progn (load
"../lisp-utils/defsystem.lisp")(funcall (intern "OPERATE-ON-SYSTEM" :mk)
"maxima" :compile :verbose t)) (values))
Warning: REQUIRE is being redefined.
;  - Compiling defsystem "maxima"
;    - Loading module "package"
;      - Loading source file "maxima-package.lisp"
Loading maxima-package.lisp
Finished loading maxima-package.lisp

;    - Compiling module "info"
;    - Compiling module "sloop"
;      - Compiling source file "sloop.lisp"
Compiling sloop.lisp.
; (DEFUN FIRST-SLOOP-FOR ...) is being compiled.
;; The variable *LOOP-INCREMENT* is undefined.
;; The compiler will assume this variable is a global.
End of Pass 1.  
End of Pass 2.  
...

There are hundreds of lines like these next three...

sloop.c: In function 'Lnk T242 :
sloop.c: 4636 'object' undeclared (first use in this function)
sloop.c: 4636 parse error before ')' token

and then this:

Correctable error: (SYSTEM "(cd binary-gcl/ ;gcc -pipe -fwritable-strings  
-DVOL=volatile -I/tmp/gcl-2.4.4/o -fsigned-char  -O4 -c -I. sloop.c -w)")
returned a non-zero value 0.
Signalled by UNLESS.
If continued: Continues anyway.
Broken at CERROR.  Type :H for Help.
SLOOP>>

Correctable error: Console interrupt.
Signalled by SYSTEM:UNIVERSAL-ERROR-HANDLER.
If continued: Type :r to resume execution, or :q to quit to top level.
Broken at SYSTEM:TERMINAL-INTERRUPT.
SLOOP>>>

I'm not a lisp programmer and have no idea how to handle this problem.  Any
idea what I'm doing wrong?