I have successfully compiled wget 1.7.1 for MacOSX 10.1.1 (Darwin 5.1)
on a PPC G4MP500.
Here is the output of the ./configure --with-gnu-ld:
[g4:~/Download/wget-1.7.1] varenet% ./configure --with-gnu-ld
creating cache ./config.cache
configuring for GNU Wget 1.7.1
checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin5.1
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... cc
checking whether the C compiler (cc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (cc ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether cc accepts -g... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E -traditional-cpp
checking for AIX... no
checking for Cygwin environment... no
checking for mingw32 environment... no
checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin5.1
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... no
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -p
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to recognise dependant libraries... file_magic Mach-O
dynamically linked shared library
checking for object suffix... o
checking for executable suffix... no
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -p output... ok
checking for dlfcn.h... no
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for cc option to produce PIC... -fno-common
checking if cc PIC flag -fno-common works... yes
checking if cc static flag -static works... no
checking if cc supports -c -o file.o... ~/Download/wget-1.7.1/conftest
yes
checking if cc supports -c -o file.lo...
checking if cc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... yes
checking whether the linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries...
yes
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... unsupported
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... darwin5.1 dyld
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... yes
creating libtool
checking for cc option to accept ANSI C...
checking for function prototypes... yes
checking for working const... yes
checking for inline... inline
checking for size_t... yes
checking for pid_t... yes
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... yes
checking size of long... 4
checking size of long long... 8
checking for string.h... yes
checking for stdarg.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking for utime.h... yes
checking for sys/utime.h... no
checking for sys/select.h... yes
checking for sys/utsname.h... yes
checking for pwd.h... yes
checking for signal.h... yes
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
checking return type of signal handlers... void
checking for struct utimbuf... yes
checking for working alloca.h... no
checking for alloca... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for getpagesize... yes
checking for working mmap... yes
checking for strdup... yes
checking for strstr... yes
checking for strcasecmp... yes
checking for strncasecmp... yes
checking for gettimeofday... yes
checking for mktime... yes
checking for strptime... no
checking for strerror... yes
checking for snprintf... yes
checking for vsnprintf... yes
checking for select... yes
checking for signal... yes
checking for symlink... yes
checking for access... yes
checking for isatty... yes
checking for uname... yes
checking for gethostname... yes
checking for gethostbyname... yes
checking for inet_ntoa... yes
checking for socket in -lsocket... no
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
language catalogs: cs da de el es et fr gl he hr it ja nl no pl pt_BR ru
sk sl sv tr uk zh_TW
checking for msgfmt... msgfmt
checking for xgettext... :
checking for gmsgfmt... msgfmt
checking for locale.h... yes
checking for libintl.h... no
checking for gettext... no
checking for gettext in -lintl... no
gettext not found; disabling NLS
checking for makeinfo... no
checking for emacs... emacs
checking for perl5... no
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for pod2man... /usr/bin/pod2man
updating cache ./config.cache
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
creating src/Makefile
creating doc/Makefile
creating util/Makefile
creating po/Makefile.in
creating windows/Makefile
creating src/config.h
generating po/POTFILES from ./po/POTFILES.in
creating po/Makefile
