--- On Tue, 12/30/08, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG error > To: pcpc168@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: "Alan Coopersmith" <Alan.Coopersmith@xxxxxxx>, fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Tuesday, December 30, 2008, 1:42 PM > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Peter > <pcpc168@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig