cmake build without pkg-config fails on MacOS 10.14.4

[zdenop]

d5f23a6 actually works on MacOS 10.14.4

git clone https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract.git
cd tesseract
git reset --hard d5f23a61b36de564c660ce37fec28bbc2b58f1e1
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make -j8

...
[100%] Built target tesseract

087576f fails (and 7a5b9b8 behaves exactly the same way)

git clone https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract.git
git reset --hard 087576f2d9d320cff5ba41df29120a8d8cc0e08b
cd tesseract
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..

...
Configuring tesseract version 5.0.0-alpha-45-g7a5b...
-- Could NOT find PkgConfig (missing: PKG_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE) 
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:149 (message):
  Missing required pkg-config


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

Although which pkgconf outputs /usr/local/bin/pkgconf - but this error is fixable by specifying the pkgconf path explicitly:

cmake .. -D PKG_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE=/usr/local/bin/pkgconf
make -j8

...
[ 99%] Linking CXX shared library libtesseract.dylib
ld: library not found for -lleptonica
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make[2]: *** [libtesseract.5.0.0.dylib] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/libtesseract.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

Altough Leptonica is present in /usr/local/lib:

ls /usr/local/lib/liblept*

/usr/local/lib/liblept.dylib -> libleptonica.1.79.0.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libleptonica.1.79.0.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libleptonica.5.3.0.dylib -> libleptonica.1.79.0.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libleptonica.dylib -> libleptonica.5.3.0.dylib

Thanks for the quick reply.

Originally posted by @gorankarlic in #2337 (comment)

[zdenop]

@gorankarlic : please test the lastet cmake

[zdenop]

@gorankarlic: can you please check if 4.1.0 Release candidate 4 works for you?

[gorankarlic]

Works now - thank you!

I am having issues with Leptonica, but seem unrelated to tesseract / pgk-config.