Failed: phase compiling: apt-0.5.4-1061 failed

Dear all, 

I need to install apt to remove packages that have dependencies (all pm5303 packages). 
However, the installation of apt fails. See below. 

Can you have a look? 

Many thanks 

	Giuliano





patching file 'cmdline/apt-config.cc'
patching file 'cmdline/apt-extracttemplates.cc'
patching file 'cmdline/apt-sortpkgs.cc'
patching file 'apt-inst/contrib/extracttar.cc'
patching file 'apt-pkg/deb/debsystem.h'
patching file 'apt-pkg/pkgsystem.h'
perl -pi -e 's|vector.h|vector|g' apt-pkg/pkgsystem.h include/apt-pkg/pkgsystem.h
Can't open include/apt-pkg/pkgsystem.h: No such file or directory, <> line 97.
perl -pi -e 's|iostream.h|iostream|g' apt-inst/contrib/extracttar.cc apt-inst/deb/dpkgdb.cc apt-inst/extract.cc apt-pkg/algorithms.cc apt-pkg/contrib/error.cc cmdline/apt-cache.cc cmdline/indexcopy.cc test/versiontest.cc 
perl -pi -e 's|fstream.h|fstream|g' apt-pkg/sourcelist.cc cmdline/apt-get.cc
sh patch_flush
for i in `grep -rl '#ifdef __GNUG__' .` ; do perl -pi -e 's/#ifdef __GNUG__/#if defined(__GNUG__) && !defined(__APPLE_CC__)/' $i; done
echo "x86_64\tx86_64" >> /opt/sw2/src/fink.build/apt-0.5.4-1061/apt-0.5.4/buildlib/archtable
sudo -u fink-bld [ENV] sh -c /tmp/fink.4oFOV
./configure --prefix=/opt/sw2 --host=x86_64-apple-darwin`uname -r|cut -f1 -d.`
creating cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... x86_64-apple-darwin23
checking target system type... x86_64-apple-darwin23
checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin23
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc   -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.
### execution of ./configure failed, exit code 1
### execution of /tmp/fink.4oFOV failed, exit code 1
Removing runtime build-lock...
Removing build-lock package...
/opt/sw2/bin/dpkg-lockwait -r fink-buildlock-apt-0.5.4-1061
(Reading database ... 286498 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing fink-buildlock-apt-0.5.4-1061 (2025.07.06-19.29.15) ...
Failed: phase compiling: apt-0.5.4-1061 failed

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