GNUstep install on OS X 10.3.9 - libffi fails

[BryanPierc]

Hello everyone!!

I have been trying to install GNUstep on OS X 10.3.9 and have not been 
able to get gnustep-base to compile.
   I have been able to install libtiff, libjpeg, libpng, libslt from source
   I had to use fink for libart2, freetype2, and windowmaker (which I 
couldn't get to compile from source)
   I have installed (fsf) gcc 3.3.5 and gnu make-2.2.0 (the latter I 
hoped might be an answer)

When running configure on gnustep-base-1.18.0 I get the fallowing error
       You do not have either ffcall or libffi installed, or configure 
needs
       --with-ffi-include and/or --with-ffi-library flags so GNUstep 
can find them,
       or you have ffcall but gnustep-make is configured to use native 
exceptions
       (native exceptions are not compatible with ffcall).
       GNUstep requires ffcall or libffi and proper libobjc hooks to do
       invocations and DO.

Nothing I have tried so far has worked
   I have reinstalled libffi into the "recommended" directories
   I have defined DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to include these pathways
   I have configured with
        --enable-libffi  
--with-libffi-library=$GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT/Library/Libraries
        --with-libffi-include=$GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT/Library/Headers

   (The full list of options...)
       ./configure --with-xml-prefix=/usr --disable-xmltest 
--with-library-combo=gnu-gnu-gnu
        --enable-libffi  
--with-libffi-library=$GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT/Library/Libraries
       --with-libffi-include=$GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT/Library/Headers 
--disable-flattened
       --enable-multi-platform LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib CPPFLAGS=-I/sw/include
   (And of course...)
       (I've added sym-links for libobjc.a as suggested)


I've tried rereading the Darwin install notes at 
www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/User/GNUstep/README.Darwin
and I've done google searches for the past 24 hours trying to figure out 
anything I might be missing. I'm  relative
newbie so anything beyond trying to make sure the libffi and libobjc 
libraries are in in the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and
trying to place order the paths so that the <fsf gcc> directories are 
searched before the <apple gcc> directories
and...well...I'm out of ideas.

If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, it would really, really, really 
be appreciated!!! :)

Best Regards,
Bryan Pierce