[Fontconfig] PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG error

[Peter]

--- On Tue, 12/30/08, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Fontconfig] PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG error
> To: pcpc168 at sbcglobal.net
> Cc: "Alan Coopersmith" <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com>, fontconfig at lists.freedesktop.org
> Date: Tuesday, December 30, 2008, 1:42 PM
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Peter
> <pcpc168 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >
> >> >> 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?
> 
> I just looked at the 2.6.0 tarball, and it looks fine. Are
> you running
> autoconf or autoreconf after unpacking? Otherwise, run
> "autoreconf
> -iv" and make sure that aclocal can find the file
> pkg.m4. I don't know
> how this works on mac, but on linux it would be in
> /usr/share/aclocal.

tried. 
sudo autoreconf -iv --force
sudo configure

it has the same error message. I assume that PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG should exist somewhere to run. if pkg-config-0.23.tar.gz  is installed,
where PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG is expected to be?

thanks.

Peter