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I've just installed Homebrew onto my machine, after which I ran brew doctor which threw up two warnings.

I didn't appear to have the command line tools for Xcode installed, which I have now. The second warning is:

Warning: You have a non-Homebrew 'pkg-config' in your PATH:
/opt/sm/pkg/active/bin/pkg-config

`./configure` may have problems finding brew-installed packages using
this other pkg-config.

What can I do to remedy this?

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Where does /opt/sm, or the pkg-config come from? Do you have any other package manager installed perhaps (I'm not familiar with those, just Homebrew)? Do you remember installing it there? – slhck♦ Nov 28 '12 at 21:04
no idea, its a brand new machine, i decided to add all the programs on by hand instead of from a backup to get rid of all the stuff i didnt need – sam Nov 28 '12 at 21:12
the only thing i could think of is it may have came bundeled with either osx, xcode, xcode command line tools, or when i installed rails from railsinstaller.org – sam Nov 28 '12 at 21:14
It's the Rails installer that put itself in /opt/sm/, including the pkg-config installation, which now takes precendence over the default pkg-config from Homebrew in /usr/local/bin. Do you see any modifications the Rails installer might have made to ~/.bash_profile, ~/.profile, /etc/paths.d/, etc. to modify the path? – slhck♦ Nov 28 '12 at 21:25
sorry slhck, were should i be look for those ? – sam Nov 28 '12 at 21:41
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