See the forum thread at http://squirrel-lang.org/forums/thread/3645.aspx
Grab an autotoolized copy of squirrel from http://ohnopub.net/hg/SQUIRREL2 . If people are interested in having a Mercurial ( http://mercurial.selenic.com/ ) copy of squirrel, I am willing to go back and reconstruct a bit of version history by downloading the old tarballs. Please just ask ohnobinki to do so.
hg clone http://ohnopub.net/hg/SQUIRREL2
This patch is in use in Gentoo's sunrise overlay: http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/browser/reviewed/dev-lang/squirrel ( for https://bugs.gentoo.org/169051 )
The version of Squirrel in this GNU Arch (http://wiki.gnuarch.org/) repository also uses GNU Autotools for build.