On May 21, 2015 5:31 PM, "Michael Gooch" <<a href="mailto:goochmi@gmail.com">goochmi@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > if i use echo $? after running the exists command for cairo i get a 1. Its supposed to be a zero in the event of success right? maybe i'm missing a dependency (or a pkg config path for that dependency) that cairo needs to consider itself functional and present. > > I do see that it is searching for several things. > > M. Gooch > > P.S. here is the output of the command with the debug thrown in > > <a href="http://pastebin.com/xcbGMpBR">http://pastebin.com/xcbGMpBR</a> If that's the entire output, it looks like it stops looking for fontconfig. Also, what version of pkg-config are you using? It says it doesn't recognize Libs.private, which has been supported for a long time. Dan