[MPlayer-users] Bug 3 of 2 (oops): configure script gives out strange responses occasionally - Mac OS X 10.3.9

[The Wanderer]

Ergzay wrote:

> 
> On 2006/03/21, at 1:16, Ergzay wrote:
> 
>> Forgot I had one more bug. When I run configure on certain lines
>> configure will output other information that shouldn't belong
>> there.
>> Here are all the lines that do so:
>> Checking for Polyp ... ./configure: line 4751: pkg-config: command not found
>> no
>> Checking for JACK ... ./configure: line 1: pkg-config: command not found
>> no
>> Checking for libcdio ... ./configure: line 5176: pkg-config: command not found
>> no
>> Checking for OggTheora support ... ./configure: line 1: pkg-config: command not found
>> ./configure: line 1: pkg-config: command not found
>> no
> 
> I found I didn't have pkg-config installed. IMO the configure script
> shouldn't depend on pkg-config. It doesn't come with many systems.

The alleged intention, when the relevant changes were made to configure,
was that we would write our own 'pkg-config' program/script and use that
if no system pkg-config was available. This has not been done.

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