gnustep-make failed to install

[Frank J. R. Hanstick]

Hello,
	When trying to install gnustep, the following error occurred:

--->  Building gcc42
--->  Staging gcc42 into destroot
--->  Installing gcc42 @4.2.4_1
--->  Activating gcc42 @4.2.4_1
--->  Cleaning gcc42
--->  Fetching gnustep-make
--->  Attempting to fetch gnustep-make-2.2.0.tar.gz from http://distfiles.macports.org/gnustep-make
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for gnustep-make
--->  Extracting gnustep-make
--->  Configuring gnustep-make
Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure:  
shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync 
.macports.org_release_ports_gnustep_gnustep-make/work/gnustep- 
make-2.2.0" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local/GNUstep CC=gcc-mp-4.2 -- 
with-library-combo=gnu-gnu-gnu --with-objc-lib-flag=-lobjc-gnu --with- 
config-file=/opt/local/GNUstep/System/Library/GNUstep.conf " returned  
error 77
Command output: checking for gcc... gcc-mp-4.2
checking for C compiler default output file name...
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

Error: The following dependencies failed to build: ArtResources  
gnustep-core gnustep-back gnustep-gui gnustep-base gnustep-make libffi  
libxslt libxml2 gnutls libgcrypt libgpg-error libtasn1 lzo opencdk  
libungif libart_lgpl GMastermind GMines GNUMail Etoile SQLClient  
Performance oniguruma5 poppler gtk2 atk glib2 gtk-doc docbook-xml  
docbook-xml-4.1.2 xmlcatmgr docbook-xml-4.2 docbook-xml-4.3 docbook- 
xml-4.4 docbook-xml-4.5 docbook-xml-5.0 docbook-xsl gnome-doc-utils  
iso-codes p5-xml-parser py26-libxml2 python26 gdbm rarian getopt  
intltool gnome-common p5-getopt-long p5-pathtools p5-scalar-list-utils  
cairo libpixman jasper pango shared-mime-info xorg-libXcomposite xorg- 
compositeproto xorg-fixesproto xorg-libXfixes xorg-libXcursor xorg- 
libXdamage xorg-damageproto xorg-libXinerama xorg-xineramaproto  
openjpeg poppler-data Pantomime PRICE TalkSoup netclasses Yap.app  
ImageMagick p7zip a2ps psutils gworkspace system-preferences  
PreferencePanes windowmaker giflib xpm
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

I searched the bug data base and found #43915 which says the gnustep  
is not universal.  Does that mean that it will not install on a PPC  
even though gcc42 installed?  I am running MacOS 10.5.8 on a PPC G4.

Frank J. R. Hanstick
trog24 at comcast.net