[cairo] problem building cairo 1.2.6

[tj]

Thanks for the advice, but alas it didn't work.
With the folowing

cairo-1.2.6$ echo $PKG_CONFIG
/usr/lib/pkgconfig

cairo-1.2.6$ echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH
/usr/lib/pkgconfig

I still get the same error as below.

The question is, why is it giving a "command not found error" ?
And the error line number is a blank line?

tj

David Turner wrote:

>I believe you must define PKG_CONGIG_PATH, not PKG_CONFIG
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>Once your configuration is ok, pkg-config --cflags libpng should dump something useful
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>Hope this helps,
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>- David
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>On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:39:53 -0500, "tj" <999alfred at comcast.net> said:
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>>When I try to configure cairo 1.2.6 I get this...
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>>$./configure
>>.
>>.
>>.
>>checking for cairo's PNG backend...
>>./configure: line 24784: --exists: command not found
>>./configure: line 24784: --exists: command not found
>>./configure: line 24784: --exists: command not found
>>configure: WARNING: Could not find libpng in the pkg-config search path
>>checking whether cairo's PNG backend could be enabled... no
>>configure: error: requested PNG backend could not be enabled
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>>My PKG_CONFIG is set correctly to
>>$ echo $PKG_CONFIG
>>/usr/lib/pkgconfig
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>>And:
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>>$ ls -l /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libpng*
>>lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           11 Feb  7  2004 
>>/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libpng.pc -> libpng12.pc
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          232 Oct 13  2002 
>>/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libpng12.pc
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>>I looked at line 24784 in configure and it is a blank line.
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>>So, can a kind soul tell me what my problem is?
>>
>>tj
>>
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