Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake

[martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>]

 > My line 9198 in configure is empty.  What's yours?  Sounds like
 > PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG was not expanded by autoconf when it built
 > configure from configure.ac?

Apparently.

 > PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG should be defined in share/aclocal/pkg.m4.  Please
 > see that you have it there, and that your pkg.m4 file is intact.

It is there and contains


# PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG([MIN-VERSION])
# ----------------------------------
AC_DEFUN([PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG],
[m4_pattern_forbid([^_?PKG_[A-Z_]+$])
m4_pattern_allow([^PKG_CONFIG(_(PATH|LIBDIR|SYSROOT_DIR|ALLOW_SYSTEM_(CFLAGS|LIBS)))?$])
m4_pattern_allow([^PKG_CONFIG_(DISABLE_UNINSTALLED|TOP_BUILD_DIR|DEBUG_SPEW)$])
AC_ARG_VAR([PKG_CONFIG], [path to pkg-config utility])
AC_ARG_VAR([PKG_CONFIG_PATH], [directories to add to pkg-config's search path])
AC_ARG_VAR([PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR], [path overriding pkg-config's built-in search path])

if test "x$ac_cv_env_PKG_CONFIG_set" != "xset"; then
	AC_PATH_TOOL([PKG_CONFIG], [pkg-config])
fi
if test -n "$PKG_CONFIG"; then
	_pkg_min_version=m4_default([$1], [0.9.0])
	AC_MSG_CHECKING([pkg-config is at least version $_pkg_min_version])
	if $PKG_CONFIG --atleast-pkgconfig-version $_pkg_min_version; then
		AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])
	else
		AC_MSG_RESULT([no])
		PKG_CONFIG=""
	fi
fi[]dnl
])# PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG


martin