I was able to install all dependencies of GDL2, but GDL2 it self... macports was unable to load it from nowhere...
also, I'd try to run an app from gnustep (Grom to be precise) and it simply did not started...
...all this GNUstep thing was driving me crazy, so I went to my office at ENSA and start all over, but in my Tiger Server (10.4.11)... there the history was completely different: instead of using macports, I downloaded directly from GNUstep ftp server gnustep-make, gnustep-base and gnustep-dl2, apply a couple of patches provided by Adam Fedor (Mil Gracias ;^) and now GDL2 is installed...
NeXT Step: learn how to integrate it with Cocoa...