affine load fails



I cant seem to get affine to load... I get here:

(%i1) load(affine);

Loading /usr/share/maxima/5.9.2/share/affine/sys-declaim.lisp
Finished loading /usr/share/maxima/5.9.2/share/affine/sys-declaim.lisp
Loading /usr/share/maxima/5.9.2/share/affine/binary-gcl/compat.o
start address -T 0x94cbc08 Finished loading 
/usr/share/maxima/5.9.2/share/affine/binary-gcl/compat.o
Loading /usr/share/maxima/5.9.2/share/affine/binary-gcl/amacros.o
start address -T 0x9739000 Finished loading 
/usr/share/maxima/5.9.2/share/affine/binary-gcl/amacros.o
Loading /usr/share/maxima/5.9.2/share/affine/binary-gcl/dummy-gc.o
start address -T 0x9b5bc80 Finished loading 
/usr/share/maxima/5.9.2/share/affine/binary-gcl/dummy-gc.o
Compiling /usr/share/maxima/5.9.2/share/affine/polybas.lisp.
Warning:
Use of QUOTE around stepping function in LOOP will be left verbatim.
Current LOOP context: FOR (DEG COF) ON (CDR POLY) BY 'CDDR WITH.
Warning:
Use of QUOTE around stepping function in LOOP will be left verbatim.
Current LOOP context: FOR (DEG COF) ON (CDR POLY) BY 'CDDR WITH.
Warning:
Use of QUOTE around stepping function in LOOP will be left verbatim.
Current LOOP context: FOR (DEG COF) ON (CDR POLY) BY 'CDDR SUMMING.
Warning:
Use of QUOTE around stepping function in LOOP will be left verbatim.
Current LOOP context: FOR (DEG COF) ON (CDR POLY) BY 'CDDR MAXIMIZE.
Warning:
Use of QUOTE around stepping function in LOOP will be left verbatim.
Current LOOP context: FOR (DEG COF) ON (CDR POLY) BY 'CDDR MAXIMIZE.
End of Pass 1.
End of Pass 2.
OPTIMIZE levels: Safety=2, Space=3, Speed=2
Finished compiling 
/usr/share/maxima/5.9.2/share/affine/binary-gcl/polybas.o.
Loading /usr/share/maxima/5.9.2/share/affine/binary-gcl/polybas.o
start address -T 0x97cd000 Finished loading 
/usr/share/maxima/5.9.2/share/affine/binary-gcl/polybas.o
Compiling /usr/share/maxima/5.9.2/share/affine/sparsemat.lisp.
Universal error handler called recursively (:ERROR NIL
 
CONDITIONS::CLCS-UNIVERSAL-ERROR-HANDLER
                                             "" "Couldn't protect")
Universal error handler called recursively (:ERROR NIL
 
CONDITIONS::CLCS-UNIVERSAL-ERROR-HANDLER
                                             "" "Couldn't protect")
Load failed for /usr/share/maxima/5.9.2/share/affine/affine.lisp
  -- an error.  Quitting.  To debug this try debugmode(true);




I have affine/affine.lisp set as:

(in-package "MAXIMA")
(defvar *maxima-affinedir*
   (combine-path (list *maxima-sharedir* "affine")))
(load (combine-path
        (list *maxima-affinedir* "affine.system")))
(mk:oos "affine" :compile)


and I have affine/affine.system set as:

;;; -*- Mode:Lisp; Package:CL-MAXIMA; Syntax:COMMON-LISP; Base:10 -*-;;;
(in-package "MAXIMA")
(defvar *maxima-affinedir*
   (combine-path (list *maxima-sharedir* "affine")))
(mk:defsystem "affine"
     :source-extension "lisp"
     :binary-pathname (combine-path
                       (list *maxima-affinedir*
                             (concatenate 'string
                                          "binary-" *maxima-lispname*)))
     :components ((:file "sys-declaim" :load-only t)
;;;  (:file "sloop")
                  (:file "compat")       ;new
                  (:file "amacros")
                  (:file "dummy-gc")
                  (:file "polybas")
                  (:file "sparsemat")
                  (:file "aquotient")
                  (:file "new-rat")
                  (:file "polya")
                  (:file "ndotsimp")
                  (:file "polyb")
                  (:file "polysmp")
                  (:file "sub-proj")
                  (:file "polyc")
                  (:file "polyd")
                  (:file "sheafa")
                  (:file "sheafb")
                  (:file "sheafc")
                  (:file "dim-3")
                  (:file "modsimp")))

I made the affine/binary-gcl directory by hand and it now contains:
amacros.o  compat.o  dummy-gc.o  polybas.o  sloop.data  sparsemat.data

the last compile that bombs appears to be sparsemat, or is the problem 
of a deeper nature?

thanks,
paul van allsburg