Success! and What made it work for me.

["David D. Huff Jr." <David Huff computer-critters com>]

After taking out --enable-debug=no from the 
~/garnome-0.12.0/gnome/category.mk file it compiled straight through.

Congrats on a job well done, it worked easier and faster than a source 
based distro I have been assisting with.

To start it I just copied the /etc../Sessions/Gnome file to Gnome2 and 
pasted this right after #!/bin/sh

PATH=$HOME/garnome/bin:$PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/garnome/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH GDK_USE_XFT=1

export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH GDK_USE_XFT

exec $HOME/garnome/bin/gnome-session

Be sure to chmod the Gnome2 file so it can be executed by gdm.

GAR appears to have potential beyond desktop building, I'll be looking 
into it further.

Thanks again!