diff --git a/src/swig/Makefile b/src/swig/Makefile
index c043904a80..23b91bba57 100644
--- a/src/swig/Makefile
+++ b/src/swig/Makefile
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ guile/xacc-guile_wrap.c: xacc.i ${SWIG_HDRS}
 	swig -I../engine -guile -o $@ $< 
 
 guile/xacc-guile: guile/xacc-guile.o guile/xacc-guile_wrap.o $(LIBENG) 
-	${CC} $^ ${LIBENG} -lguile -lreadline -lm -o $@
+	${CC} $^  -lguile -lreadline -lm -o $@
 CLEANFILES += guile/xacc-guile
 
 ##### Perl5
diff --git a/src/swig/README b/src/swig/README
index 5408064a65..aa0a000945 100644
--- a/src/swig/README
+++ b/src/swig/README
@@ -16,3 +16,8 @@ into the interpreter.
 Building perl5 will result in a perl module.  For an example of how to
 use it, see ../cbb/cbb-to-xacc.
 
+----------------------
+TBD:
+-- create a makefile.in
+-- modify configure to check perl paths
+-- modify root dir makefile to build this subdir