[libvirt] Bootstrap fail, but non-useful message :/

[Justin Clift]

On 30/11/2010, at 12:35 AM, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> Looks like the system is missing pkg-config, or at least has the .m4
> file is in an unexpected place so that autoconf can't find it.
> 
> bootstrap checks for pkg-config, so the binary is probably there, but
> that doesn't mean that autoconf can find the corresponding .m4 file,
> if it's there at all.

Interesting.  When installing autoconf, MacPorts also installs a newer m4
than the system provided one too.

I wonder if there's a better way to cope with this m4 related failure scenario,
than the text presently being given?