Move the safety check about pkg-config in bootstrap.sh.

Don't check twice for pkg-config during configure, since the undefined
macro would be possibly caused on a different system.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bootstrap.sh b/bootstrap.sh
index 6698f68b6..4ca2b339e 100755
--- a/bootstrap.sh
+++ b/bootstrap.sh
@@ -40,6 +40,15 @@ run_versioned() {
 
 set -ex
 
+# We check for this here, because if pkg-config is not found in the
+# system, it's likely that the pkg.m4 macro file is also not present,
+# which will make PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG be undefined and the generated
+# configure file faulty.
+if ! pkg-config --version &>/dev/null; then
+    echo "pkg-config is required to bootstrap this program" &>/dev/null
+    exit 1
+fi
+
 if [ "x$1" = "xam" ] ; then
     run_versioned automake "$VERSION" -a -c --foreign
     ./config.status