MacBook OSX 10.4 Intel Dual Core JHBuild needs cairo cairo needs pkg-config pkg-config needs glib glib needs pkg-config So, you cannot install JHBuild.
That's not a Cairo problem though, but either a problem of the software you're using, or of pkg-config.
This is documented in the documentation, you need glib to build pkg-config.
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