Installing fontconfig from source, says it can't find configure

Question

I downloaded fontconfig 2.8.0 as part of a chain of downloads trying to fix another issue.

I went into the directory and the INSTALL file said to run:

./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man

Perfectly fine, done that a thousand times. Except:

-bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

So where do I go from here? Never come across this one...

Answer 1

(A) Are you running ./configure from the proper folder?

(B) Is there a file configure in the source folder? If not, you may have to use auto-tools first to create the configure script itself.

(C) How did you download it? This link ought to work: http://fontconfig.org/release/fontconfig-2.8.0.tar.gz