[GEM-dev] ./configure: line 8733: pkg-config: command not found

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

So in the auto-builds, the FTGL part of configure gives this error:

checking linux/videodev.h usability... no
checking linux/videodev.h presence... no
checking for linux/videodev.h... no
./configure: line 8733: pkg-config: command not found
checking for PKG_FTGL_CFLAGS...
checking for PKG_FTGL_LIBS...
checking for ftgl-config... yes
checking for main in -lftgl... no

When I run the build from a login shell, it works fine:

checking linux/videodev.h usability... no
checking linux/videodev.h presence... no
checking for linux/videodev.h... no
checking whether linker accepts "-L/sw/lib/freetype219/lib -L/sw/lib - 
lz -lfreetype -lftgl_pic  "... no
checking for PKG_FTGL_CFLAGS... -I/sw/include -I/sw/include/FTGL -I/ 
sw/lib/freetype219/include -I/sw/lib/freetype219/include/freetype2
checking for PKG_FTGL_LIBS... -L/sw/lib/freetype219/lib -L/sw/lib -lz  
-lfreetype -lftgl


I think I found the source of the problem.  My guess is that the Gem  
autoconf system relies on the environment's path.  From my  
experience, all of the needed environment variables should be  
included in configure.ac so that the configure will.  In this case  
pkg-config is in /sw/bin/pkg-config (Mac OS X does not include pkg- 
config).  If a line something like this was added near the top of  
configure.ac, I think it would work:

PATH="${PATH}:/sw/bin"

.hc


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