Can't install rmagick, pkg-config: command not found

Question

I'm trying to install rmagick on my Mac OS X v10.9 (Mavericks) machine. However. I get this error

/usr/local/bin/Magick-config: line 41: pkg-config: command not found /usr/local/bin/Magick-config: line 47: pkg-config: command not found /usr/local/bin/Magick-config: line 50: pkg-config: command not found /usr/local/bin/Magick-config: line 53: pkg-config: command not found checking for stdint.h... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for wand/MagickWand.h... yes /usr/local/bin/Magick-config: line 53: pkg-config: command not found Can't install RMagick 2.13.2. Can't find the ImageMagick library or one of the dependent libraries. Check the mkmf.log file for more detailed information. 

The lines 41,17,50,53 in Magick-config are

--cflags)   pkg-config --cflags MagickCore   ;; --cxxflags)   pkg-config --cflags MagickCore   ;; --cppflags)   pkg-config --cflags MagickCore   ;; --ldflags)   pkg-config --libs MagickCore   ;; --libs)   pkg-config --libs MagickCore   ;; 

I installed ImageMagick with brew install imagemagick --build-from-source and before running gem install rmagick, I set the path to MagickCore.pc with export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/imagemagick/6.8.9-1/lib/pkgconfig and the path to Wand.h with export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/imagemagick/6.8.9-1/include/ImageMagick-6/.

This worked for the Wand, but not for MagickCore, as I still get pkg-config: command not found.

I use Ruby 1.9.3p545 and Ruby on Rails 3.2.16.

How can I fix this problem?

Answer 1

I had the same issue with Rmagick after upgrading to Maverick. This solved it:

brew uninstall pkg-config brew install pkg-config brew unlink pkg-config && brew link pkg-config