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<p>I'm closing this pull request.   For me this "configure" change works.</p>
<p>It's simply:</p>
<p>PKG_CHECK_MODULES(UNICODE_PLUGIN,[glib-2.0 pangocairo],,AC_PLUGIN_DISABLE)</p>
<p>the "PKG_CHECK_MODULES" macro checks whether glib-2.0 and pangocairo are installed VIA the pkg-config tool.</p>
<p>My understanding is that GTK uses pkg-config exactly for this purpose.</p>
<p>But it's true that any change to 'configure' has some risk associated to it (it may break things on some other platforms).   Because I have a workaround, I'm closing the request.</p>
<p>I'll just open a request to document in the README that we have discussed the issue, so that somebody who stumbles upon the same issue in the future, knows about it.</p>
<p>It's seems likely that this issue will come up again - on different platforms.</p>

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