[Fontconfig] PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG error

[Dan Nicholson]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Peter <pcpc168 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> --- On Tue, 12/30/08, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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?

First, I just looked at the tarball, and if you just run configure
right away it should be fine. Are you running any commands before you
run ./configure? Could you show the output of the commands?

Second, if you really need to rebuild the autotools, then the
pkg-config autoconf macros need to be available. If you have the
output from autoreconf, it might help.

You also don't need to run all the commands as root.

--
Dan