Created attachment 49838 [details] [review] patch to check pkg-config availability before autoreconf To generate configure script by autoconf correctly, pkg.m4 is required. It is difficult for users to understand the error message when pkg.m4 is missing, http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/harfbuzz/2011-August/001460.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/harfbuzz/2011-August/001463.html it is expected that autogen.sh checks pkg-config availability. configure itself uses pkg-config too, so the dependency is not harmful. Attachment is a patch to check pkg-config. However, if some systems separate pkg-config command and pkg.m4 macro, further improvement is needed.
Humm, I'll check that pkg-config is installed. That doesn't necessary mean that pkg.m4 is available, but it's probably good enough.
This is fixed already.
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