Compiling GNUStep Tutorial Code on OSX Yosemite 10.10.1

[jimserac]

I'd like to try compiling some GNUStep Tutorial Code on OSX Yosemite as Kevin 
Mitchell's post indicated he has done: (This is my main desktop machine and I 
just upgraded to Yosemite).

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/gnu.gnustep.discuss/WVZhlHIVexI

Using gnustep-make, from homebrew which uses the Cocoa framework.

To do it, apparently you have to fix or supply the missing RELEASE/AUTORELEASE 
macros.

Anyone have a clue how to do that ?

I spend more time trying to install GNUStep than i do actually using it.

I had no trouble installing it on Ubuntu 14.04 last summer on a desktop I have 
since discarded.  Now I try the same steps (posted by Schaub), 

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/gnu.gnustep.discuss/ubuntu$20schaub/gnu.gnustep.discuss/MNF0kdagxZ4/B35fBXBpYTwJ

And in fails in the cmake <space> ..   stating that it can find the pthread.h 
but is missing some other pthread_code component.
 
#install libobjc2 
cd ~/Downloads/libobjc2 
mkdir build 
cd build 
cmake .. 
make 
sudo make install 

I dream of a stable GNUstep environment were I can actually try out some of the 
apps instead of wondering which missing component or incompatible version of 
what, where, is messing up the works.

Or...should I just use apt-get to install the Debian stuff on Ubuntu 14.04 ?  
Will that give me enough to do compiles ?

Hence my question on compiling some of this stuff under a Mac Yosemite ....