getting gnustep to work

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Over the years I have tried many times to install and get Gnustep to work.
Never had any luck so far. All its ever produced for me is a nice list of
error messages. Tried again recently on Windows, no luck. So I tried just
now on a clean install of Ubuntu. I installed Gnustep, followed the mini
tutorial to create a tiny program and its makefile (below). I then, as
instructed, typed "make", and as usual, got some error messages (just
below).

First I would like to ask if anyone can help me solve this problem?
Second I would like to ask if anyone knows why the developers are able to
write such a complex piece of code (gnustep and all its sophisticated
libraries) and yet seem unable to write a simple and effective means of
installing it?

Thanks in advance for any help that can be offered.

ERRORS:
make
GNUmakefile:1: /common.make: No such file or directory
GNUmakefile:6: /tool.make: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `/tool.make'.  Stop.


PROGRAM (source.m):

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

int
main (void)
{ 
  NSLog (@"Executing");
  return 0;
}

MAKEFILE (GNUmakefile):

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

int
main (void)
{ 
  NSLog (@"Executing");
  return 0;
}

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