diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 9f3421f4b2a..f36626452bd 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -2853,6 +2853,12 @@ libprotobuf-lite.so.14 protobuf-lite-3.4.0_1
 libprotoc.so.14 protobuf-3.4.0_1
 libprotobuf.so.14 protobuf-3.4.0_1
 libsombok.so.3 sombok-2.4.0_1
+libguile-srfi-srfi-1-v-3.so.3 guile1.8-1.8.8_1
+libguile-srfi-srfi-4-v-3.so.3 guile1.8-1.8.8_1
+libguile-srfi-srfi-60-v-2.so.2 guile1.8-1.8.8_1
+libguile.so.17 guile1.8-1.8.8_1
+libguilereadline-v-17.so.17 guile1.8-1.8.8_1
+libguile-srfi-srfi-13-14-v-3.so.3 guile1.8-1.8.8_1
 libite.so.3 libite-1.8.2_1
 libykclient.so.3 ykclient-2.15_1
 libbooster.so.0 cppcms-1.0.5_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/guile1.8-devel b/srcpkgs/guile1.8-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..8cfa70ed3ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/guile1.8-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+guile1.8
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/guile1.8/patches/cross.patch b/srcpkgs/guile1.8/patches/cross.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0b51020c911
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/guile1.8/patches/cross.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+Configure cannot execute built binary when cross compiling.
+The patch skips the test and assumes "no".
+This is how it is done in version 2.0.14's configure script.
+
+--- configure.orig	2017-09-15 11:14:54.427295947 +0200
++++ configure	2017-09-15 14:11:07.253528181 +0200
+@@ -19802,6 +19802,7 @@
+ $as_echo_n "checking whether pthread_attr_getstack works for the main thread... " >&6; }
+ old_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
+ CFLAGS="$PTHREAD_CFLAGS $CFLAGS"
++if test "$cross_compiling" = no; then
+ if test "$cross_compiling" = yes; then :
+   { { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: error: in \`$ac_pwd':" >&5
+ $as_echo "$as_me: error: in \`$ac_pwd':" >&2;}
+@@ -19849,6 +19850,10 @@
+   conftest.$ac_objext conftest.beam conftest.$ac_ext
+ fi
+ 
++else
++  works="assuming it doesn't"
++fi
++
+ CFLAGS="$old_CFLAGS"
+ { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $works" >&5
+ $as_echo "$works" >&6; }
diff --git a/srcpkgs/guile1.8/patches/musl-sigcontext.patch b/srcpkgs/guile1.8/patches/musl-sigcontext.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..74cfdebe258
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/guile1.8/patches/musl-sigcontext.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+When checking for the location of the sigcontext struct it is not taken into
+account that a different libc than glibc could be used. It falls back to libc5
+which leads to a sigcontext redefinition error when using the musl libc. The
+patch simply removes the misleading checks since we're way beyond those
+versions anyway.
+
+--- libguile/gc_os_dep.c.orig	2010-12-13 18:25:01.000000000 +0100
++++ libguile/gc_os_dep.c	2017-09-17 23:01:55.494204333 +0200
+@@ -1445,40 +1445,6 @@
+ 				/* include assembly code to do it well.	*/
+ # endif
+ 
+-# if defined(LINUX) && !defined(POWERPC)
+-
+-# if 0
+-#   include <linux/version.h>
+-#   if (LINUX_VERSION_CODE <= 0x10400)
+-      /* Ugly hack to get struct sigcontext_struct definition.  Required  */
+-      /* for some early 1.3.X releases.  Will hopefully go away soon. */
+-      /* in some later Linux releases, asm/sigcontext.h may have to   */
+-      /* be included instead.                                         */
+-#     define __KERNEL__
+-#     include <asm/signal.h>
+-#     undef __KERNEL__
+-#  endif
+-
+-#  else
+-
+-      /* Kernels prior to 2.1.1 defined struct sigcontext_struct instead of */
+-      /* struct sigcontext.  libc6 (glibc2) uses "struct sigcontext" in     */
+-      /* prototypes, so we have to include the top-level sigcontext.h to    */
+-      /* make sure the former gets defined to be the latter if appropriate. */
+-#     include <features.h>
+-#     if 2 <= __GLIBC__
+-#       if 2 == __GLIBC__ && 0 == __GLIBC_MINOR__
+-	  /* glibc 2.1 no longer has sigcontext.h.  But signal.h	*/
+-	  /* has the right declaration for glibc 2.1.			*/
+-#         include <sigcontext.h>
+-#       endif /* 0 == __GLIBC_MINOR__ */
+-#     else /* not 2 <= __GLIBC__ */
+-        /* libc5 doesn't have <sigcontext.h>: go directly with the kernel   */
+-        /* one.  Check LINUX_VERSION_CODE to see which we should reference. */
+-#       include <asm/sigcontext.h>
+-#     endif /* 2 <= __GLIBC__ */
+-#   endif
+-# endif
+ # if !defined(OS2) && !defined(PCR) && !defined(AMIGA) && !defined(MACOS)
+ #   include <sys/types.h>
+ #   if !defined(MSWIN32) && !defined(SUNOS4)
diff --git a/srcpkgs/guile1.8/template b/srcpkgs/guile1.8/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d94be770958
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/guile1.8/template
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Template file for 'guile1.8'
+pkgname="guile1.8"
+version="1.8.8"
+revision=1
+wrksrc=${pkgname/1.8/}-${version}
+build_style="gnu-configure"
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
+makedepends="gmp-devel libltdl-devel ncurses-devel readline-devel"
+configure_args="--disable-static --disable-error-on-warning --program-suffix='-1.8'"
+short_desc="A portable, embeddable Scheme implementation written in C"
+maintainer="newbluemoon <blaumolch@mailbox.org>"
+homepage="https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html"
+license="LGPL-2.1"
+distfiles="${GNU_SITE}/${pkgname/1.8/}/${pkgname/1.8/}-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=c3471fed2e72e5b04ad133bbaaf16369e8360283679bcf19800bc1b381024050
+
+if [ -n "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
+	hostmakedepends+=" guile1.8"
+	make_build_args="GUILE_FOR_BUILD=guile-1.8"
+fi
+
+post_install() {
+	# conflicts with guile-2.0
+	rm -rf ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/info
+}
+
+guile1.8-devel_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	depends="gmp-devel ${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/bin/guile-config-1.8
+		sed -i '1s|/usr/bin/guile|/usr/bin/guile-1.8|' ${PKGDESTDIR}/usr/bin/guile-config-1.8
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+		vmove usr/share/aclocal
+		mv ${PKGDESTDIR}/usr/share/aclocal/{guile.m4,guile-1.8.m4}
+	}
+}
+