Add a check for pkg-config to autogen.sh

1 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index b7a557c9..87c59449 100755
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -68,6 +68,40 @@ if [ "$AC_ERROR" = "1" ]; then
 	tput sgr0
 fi
 
+#Check for pkg-config
+if which pkg-config 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then
+	#pkg-config seems to be installed. Check for m4 macros:
+	tmpdir=`mktemp -d "./autogenXXXXXX"`
+	oldpwd=`pwd`
+	cd ${tmpdir}
+	cat > configure.ac << _EOF_
+AC_INIT
+PKG_CHECK_MODULES(QtNetwork, [QtNetwork >= 4.4],  ac_qt="yes", ac_qt="no")
+_EOF_
+	aclocal
+	autoconf --force
+	grep -q PKG_CHECK_MODULES configure
+	PKG_MACRO_AVAILABLE=$?
+	cd ${oldpwd}
+	rm -rf ${tmpdir}
+	if [ ${PKG_MACRO_AVAILABLE} -eq 0 ]; then
+		echo -e  '\E[31;m'
+		echo -n "pkg-config installed, but autoconf is not able to find pkg.m4. "
+		echo "Unfortunately the generated configure would not work, so we stop here."
+		echo
+		tput sgr0
+		exit 1
+	fi
+else
+	echo -e  '\E[31;m'
+	echo -n "pkg-config not found. "
+	echo "pkg-config is required to create a working configure, so we stop here."
+	echo
+	tput sgr0
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+
 # Check libtool version
 if [ -z "$LIBTOOL" ] ; then
 	LIBTOOL="libtool"