Gok 0.9.4 fails to compile on my machine. The failure happens at the
linking stage (check out the included output for details). 

I am able to compile gok 0.9.3.

relevant output:

ben@squid:~/gok-0.9.4$ make
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ben/gok-0.9.4'
Making all in gok
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ben/gok-0.9.4/gok'
/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc  -g -O2  -o gok  callbacks.o interface.o
support.o gok-branchback-stack.o g ok-button.o gok-chunker.o gok-data.o
gok-repeat.o gok-mousecontrol.o gok-keyboard.o gok-key.o gok-input.o gok-
scanner.o gok-settings-dialog.o gok-page-keysizespace.o gok-page-actions.o
gok-page-accessmethod.o gok-page-wo rdcomplete.o gok-page-feedbacks.o
gok-spy.o main.o switchapi.o gok-keyslotter.o gok-word-complete.o
word-compl ete.o gok-utf8-word-complete.o gok-sound.o gok-modifier.o
gok-output.o gok-action.o gok-control.o gok-log.o go k-editor.o global.o
arraylist.o command-vertex-data.o command-edge-data.o command-vertex.o
command-edge.o comm and-graph.o command-predictor.o gok-log-reader.o
gok-predictor.o gok-gconf.o gok-bounds.o gok-feedback.o gok-c omposer.o
gok-windowlister.o gok-modifier-keymasks.o keysym2ucs.o -pthread
-Wl,--export-dynamic -L/usr/X11R6/l ib -lgnomeui-2 -lSM -lICE -lbonoboui-2
-lxml2 -lpthread -lz -lgnome-2 -lpopt -lgconf-2 -lgnomevfs-2 -lcspi -ls pi
-lbonobo-2 -lbonobo-activation -lORBit-2 -lgthread-2.0 -lgailutil
-lgnomecanvas-2 -lart_lgpl_2 -lpangoft2-1 .0 -lwnck-1 -lgtk-x11-2.0
-lstartup-notification-1 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0
-lpangoxft-1.0 -lp angox-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl
-lglib-2.0 -lesd -laudiofile -lm         -L/usr/X11R6/l ib  -lSM -lICE
-lX11   -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXi    -version-info 0:4:0
../libtool: line 1: s%^.*/%%: No such file or directory
../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found
../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found
../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found
../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found
../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found
../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found
../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found
../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found
../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found
../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found
../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found
../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found
mkdir /.libs
mkdir: cannot create directory `/.libs': Permission denied
make[2]: *** [gok] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ben/gok-0.9.4/gok'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ben/gok-0.9.4'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
ben@squid:~/gok-0.9.4$