diff --git a/legacy/evas/configure.ac b/legacy/evas/configure.ac
index 423df8b558..747d6c0083 100644
--- a/legacy/evas/configure.ac
+++ b/legacy/evas/configure.ac
@@ -1656,9 +1656,10 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE([build-examples],
        # put in here the dependencies for Evas' examples. they are
        # meant to be 'real world' usage examples, thus one will be
        # using higher level libraries on these programs
-       PKG_CHECK_MODULES([ECORE_EVAS], [ecore-evas ecore])
+       PKG_CHECK_MODULES([ECORE_EVAS], [ecore-evas ecore], [], [build_examples="no"])
        PKG_CHECK_MODULES([EDJE], [edje],
-        [edje_cc=$(pkg-config --variable=prefix edje)/bin/edje_cc])
+        [edje_cc=$(pkg-config --variable=prefix edje)/bin/edje_cc],
+        [build_examples="no"])
        AC_SUBST(edje_cc)
     else
        build_examples="no"