Can't install Thrift on Mac OS 10.9.2

Question

This problem is like Installing thrift on CentOS 6.5 64 bit and Cassandra PDO , but he is on CentOS, I am runninc MacOS.

checking for gawk... (cached) awk
checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
./configure: line 17029: syntax error near unexpected token `QT,'
./configure: line 17029: `    PKG_CHECK_MODULES(QT, QtCore >= 4.3, QtNetwork >= 4.3, have_qt=yes, have_qt=no)'

My envrioment is

gcc -v
Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.9.sdk/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple LLVM version 5.1 (clang-503.0.40) (based on LLVM 3.4svn)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0
Thread model: posix

uname -a
Darwin rMacBook.local 13.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 13.1.0: Wed Apr  2 23:52:02 PDT 2014; root:xnu-2422.92.1~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

add:

When i run ./bootstrap.sh,the result is:

    lib/cpp/test/Makefile.am:221: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
lib/cpp/test/Makefile.am:187: warning: variable 'processor_test_SOURCES' is defined but no program or
lib/cpp/test/Makefile.am:187: library has 'processor_test' as canonical name (possible typo)
lib/cpp/test/Makefile.am:178: warning: variable 'concurrency_test_SOURCES' is defined but no program or
lib/cpp/test/Makefile.am:178: library has 'concurrency_test' as canonical name (possible typo)
lib/cpp/test/Makefile.am:195: warning: variable 'processor_test_LDADD' is defined but no program or
lib/cpp/test/Makefile.am:195: library has 'processor_test' as canonical name (possible typo)
lib/cpp/test/Makefile.am:184: warning: variable 'concurrency_test_LDADD' is defined but no program or
lib/cpp/test/Makefile.am:184: library has 'concurrency_test' as canonical name (possible typo)
test/cpp/Makefile.am:96: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
tutorial/cpp/Makefile.am:65: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')

Answer 1

Try following:

$ brew install pkg-config

I faced the same problem today and I didn't want to use brew install thrift as I have my boost installation in a custom location.

Installing pkg-config and then building a clean checkout of thrift worked.