Problem with bigloo 4.0a - with work-around

Since I couldn't build 4.0b. I was trying to re-build 4.0a. I had 
difficulty with this, but resolved the problem. I wanted to share in 
case anyone else had this problem.

Right after building everything in runtime/Match it starts trying to use 
bigloo to generate the .c files for the files in runtime/Lalr


gcc  -I/proj/samson/user/tdukes/Downloads/tmp/bigloo4.0a-mod/lib/4.0a 
-O3  -fPIC 
-I/proj/samson/user/tdukes/Downloads/tmp/bigloo4.0a-mod/gc/gc-7.2d/include 
-c -o Match-s2cfun.o objs/obj_u/Match/s2cfun.c && \
         mv Match-s2cfun.o objs/obj_u/Match/s2cfun.o
/proj/samson/user/tdukes/Downloads/tmp/bigloo4.0a-mod/bin/bigloo -srfi 
enable-pcre -srfi bigloo-unsafe -O3 -fcfa-arithmetic -q  +rm -lib-dir 
/proj/samson/user/tdukes/Downloads/tmp/bigloo4.0a-mod/lib/4.0a -mklib 
-cc gcc -fsharing -q -no-hello -copt -fPIC -unsafe -safee -O4  -c 
Lalr/driver.scm -indent -o objs/obj_u/Lalr/driver.c
make[4]: 
/proj/samson/user/tdukes/Downloads/tmp/bigloo4.0a-mod/bin/bigloo: 
Command not found
make[4]: *** [objs/obj_u/Lalr/driver.c] Error 127

I see that the .c files are already in objs/obj_u/Lalr:

make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/proj/samson/user/tdukes/Downloads/tmp/bigloo4.0a-mod/runtime'
make: *** [boot] Error 2
bash-4.2$ ls runtime/objs/obj_u/Lalr/
driver.c  gen.c  global.c  lalr.c  rewrite.c  util.c
bash-4.2$

I couldn't understand the Makefile well enough to see why make is trying 
to rebuild them.

I looked more closely at the time of the files: (this is from different 
directory, but has the same problem)

bash-4.2$ ls -l runtime/objs/obj_u/R5rs/
total 220
-rw-r-----  1 tdukes design 218259 Aug  2 14:20 syntax.c
bash-4.2$ ls -l runtime/R5rs
total 28
-rw-r-----  1 tdukes design 20738 Aug  2 14:21 syntax.scm
bash-4.2$

The .sch file is newer than the .c file. After touching the *.c files 
the build proceeded.

bash-4.2$ touch runtime/objs/obj_u/R5rs/*.c
bash-4.2$ make

I had to do this for several directories to get them to build. 
Eventually the build finished and after running

make test

responded with

All tests executed...
all succeeded

I have never had this problem before. Should the tar be extracted with 
something other than

tar -xvzf ../bigloo4.0a.tar.gz

so that the file times are preserved? The .c files need to be newer than 
the .scm  files until bigloo is built.

Thanks,
Todd.