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bug #61063: [bjarnigroff] configure: error, PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG not found with new "automake" ("autoconf")

Submitter:  Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig>
Submitted:  Thu 19 Aug 2021 09:28:04 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  General Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  Build/Installation Status:  Invalid
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  gbranden
Open/Closed:  Closed Planned Release:  None
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Tue 08 Jul 2025 07:29:18 PM UTC, comment #1: 


original submission:

> configure: error, PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG not found with new "automake" ("autoconf")


> checking for xpmtoppm... found
> ../configure: line 24111: PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG: command not found
> ../configure: line 24121: syntax error near unexpected token `UCHARDET,'
> ../configure: line 24121: `  PKG_CHECK_MODULES(UCHARDET,'


> PKG_CONFIG has been changed to PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG.
>
>   New "automake" or "autoconf" need to search the directory
> "/usr/share/aclocal" to find "pkg.m4" by using the environmental
> variable "ACLOCAL_FLAGS" when running "bootstrap".
>


This sounds like another "bjarnigroff" problem.

> PKG_CONFIG has been changed to PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG.


If that's the case then groff's "configure.ac" was already correct at the time you filed this ticket.


31f64af693 configure.ac (G. Branden Robinson 2022-06-09 16:45:42 -0500  66) GROFF_USE_TEX_CHECK
b04d345ed2 configure.in (James Clark         1992-09-01 12:28:08 -0500  67) AC_PROG_RANLIB
dc53513649 configure.in (James Clark         1995-11-26 06:50:32 -0500  68) GROFF_INSTALL_SH
6613c25c3b configure.ac (Werner LEMBERG      2002-05-26 09:32:25 +0000  69) GROFF_INSTALL_INFO
b04d345ed2 configure.in (James Clark         1992-09-01 12:28:08 -0500  70) AC_PROG_INSTALL
dc53513649 configure.in (James Clark         1995-11-26 06:50:32 -0500  71) AC_PROG_LN_S
9828e05cbb configure.ac (Bertrand Garrigues  2014-09-03 22:19:11 +0200  72) AC_PROG_MKDIR_P
e01613578b configure.ac (Bertrand Garrigues  2014-09-07 17:54:53 +0200  73) GROFF_PROG_XPMTOPPM
75c0873c3f configure.ac (Bertrand Garrigues  2017-07-04 23:40:46 +0200  74) PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG
75c0873c3f configure.ac (Bertrand Garrigues  2017-07-04 23:40:46 +0200  75) GROFF_UCHARDET
faff60c2bd configure.ac (Werner LEMBERG      2003-11-12 14:42:31 +0000  76)


Possibly you did something else in your fork to provoke this diagnostic.

Resolving as invalid.

G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
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Thu 19 Aug 2021 09:28:04 PM UTC, original submission:  

configure: error, PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG not found with new "automake" ("autoconf")

checking for xpmtoppm... found
../configure: line 24111: PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG: command not found
../configure: line 24121: syntax error near unexpected token `UCHARDET,'
../configure: line 24121: `  PKG_CHECK_MODULES(UCHARDET,'

PKG_CONFIG has been changed to PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG.

  New "automake" or "autoconf" need to search the directory
"/usr/share/aclocal" to find "pkg.m4" by using the environmental
variable "ACLOCAL_FLAGS" when running "bootstrap".

Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig>

 

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    2025-07-08 gbranden Summaryconfigure: error, PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG not found with new &quot;automake&quot; (&quot;autoconf&quot;) [bjarnigroff] configure: error, PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG not found with new "automake" ("autoconf")
    2025-07-08 gbranden Assigned toNone gbranden
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    2025-07-08 gbranden CategoryCore General
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