The release 4.4a is now almost complete. Just one or two additional tests and it will be ready. I would appreciate if you could it a last try. It is available there:ftp://ftp-sop.inria.fr/indes/fp/Bigloo/bigloo-unstable.tar.gz
I was able to build a Docker container with no trouble using the same build steps as before:
./configure make make install-sans-docs make fulltest