*Any* way to getting GNUstep on a G4 ???

[M. Uli Kusterer]

Hi,

 I just spent the better part of the day trying to get GNUstep installed 
on my Mac somehow. I can't get it to work. Here's all the things I've 
tried in the past year:

1) Somehow install GNUstep under MacOS X. This included compiling my own 
GCC, which seemed to work, but when I got to GNUstep-GUI I got all sorts 
of weird errors that proved me wrong. A guy from this list/NG helped me 
with that, but we sadly didn't get anywhere near a working GNUstep. At 
least it only took a week.

2) Installing Debian ("Woody"). I got as far as running GNUstep apps, 
but apt-get for Woody doesn't include the dev tools. And I couldn't find 
any hints at how to get those installed on that OS, so I was stuck.

3) Installing Debian ("Sarge" - testing). I couldn't even get Debian 
itself to install. It just froze the installer trying to talk to some 
aic7xxx driver.

4) Installing Woody, again. Somehow the second time round lots of 
packages seem to be missing from the net-install server. I couldn't even 
get X11 running anymore.

5) Installing the GNUDarwin stuff on top of a frash copy of Panther. 
This didn't really produce anything that worked.

6) Installing OpenDarwin 7.2.1 and then the GNUDarwin stuff on top of 
that. After lots of fiddling, downloading and configuring, I got as far 
as having everything installed, I think, but openapp complains about 
libgcc-1.0_s being missing...

So, anybody know a less painful way of getting GNUstep onto a PowerMac 
G4? I'm a seasoned programmer and not a command-line illiterate either, 
but I'd have no idea where to even *start* diagnosing the problem, and 
I've already proven that compiling my own GCC is just too complex. And 
since neither Mozilla nor Lincs [sic] will launch on OpenDarwin either, 
I have to restart each time I want to try out something I googled up.

This is feeling as if Linux was a root beer float and I was trying to 
walk on it with my shoes on fire...

 I *want* to contribute code, but that darned machine won't let me!

Hellllpppp!!!!
-- M. Uli Kusterer
http://www.zathras.de