Problems building Bigloo from GitHub

Greetings,

I am attempting to build Bigloo from GitHub.

I am on: LinuxMint 19.3
GCC version 7.5.0

I did:
    ./configure
    make

I have two issues:

1.  Build failure with:

[...]
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/blake/Backup/bigloo.git/runtime'
rm -f /home/blake/Backup/bigloo.git/lib/bigloo/4.4c/bigloo.heap
/home/blake/Backup/bigloo.git/bin/bigloo  -srfi enable-resolv -srfi
enable-unistring -srfi enable-pcre2 -srfi enable-gmp  -unsafe -q -mkheap
-mklib -s -no-hello  -L /home/blake/Backup/bigloo.git/lib/bigloo/4.4c
Llib/make_lib.scm -heap bigloo.heap
/home/blake/Backup/bigloo.git/bin/bigloo: error while loading shared
libraries: libpcre2-8.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
[...]

2.  I get many messages that look like this:

/usr/local/bin/bigloo.sh -w -unsafeh  -q -afile .afile -fsharing
-fno-reflection -cc gcc -lib-dir
/home/blake/Backup/bigloo.git/lib/bigloo/4.4c -unsafev
-gno-error-localization -no-hello -Wall -O2 +rm -g         -c
SawJvm/names.scm -o SawJvm/names.o
*** WARNING: Cross compilation for different Bigloos is risky.

Why is it using /usr/local/bin/bigloo rather than the one I am building?

Thanks.

Blake McBride