1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index 17ee16a58c..250f80d25e 100755
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -17,6 +17,18 @@ else
         gtkdocize || exit $?
 fi
 
+PKGCONFIG=`which pkg-config`
+if test -z "$PKGCONFIG"; then
+        echo "*** pkg-config not found, please install it ***"
+        exit 1
+fi
+
+pkg-config --print-errors gobject-introspection-1.0
+if [ $? != 0 ]; then
+	echo "You probably need to install 'libgirepository1.0-dev'"
+	exit 1
+fi
+
 # README and INSTALL are required by automake, but may be deleted by clean
 # up rules. to get automake to work, simply touch these here, they will be
 # regenerated from their corresponding *.in files by ./configure anyway.