crtbegin.o: No such file: No such file or directory Error when compiling Meep-1.2 on CentOS

When compiling Meep on CentOS, you may encounter the error

/usr/bin/ld: crtbegin.o: No such file: No such file or directory.

This error is quite misleading as it is likely could be due to the missing guile and guile-devel packages.

Do a yum install

# yum install guile guile-devel  

and recompile again