[Fontconfig] PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG error

Peter pcpc168 at sbcglobal.net
Tue Dec 30 13:02:41 PST 2008


> >> Peter wrote:
> >> > Hello,
> >> > I donwloaded the latest fontconfig 2.6 to
> compile
> >> under Mac OS X 10.5,
> >> > it failed with the error:
> >> >
> >> > configure: line 22438:
> >> >  PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG:  command not found
> >> >
> >> > Where should I download PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG?
> >>
> >> http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/
> >
> > Alan,
> > Thanks.
> > I have pkg-config-0.23.tar.gz installed already. But I
> still got the same
> > error message under Mac OS X 10.5.
> 
> You're getting this error when building from the
> tarball or you're
> pulling fontconfig from freedesktop git? This is an
> autoconf macro
> that has failed to expand. If it's in the tarball like
> that, then
> there's a problem.

It is from fontconfig tarball. not sure why it failed to expand,
is there a way I can manually expand to see if I can fix the problem?

Thanks.

Peter



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