Here's what I did:
# emerge mono
<snip>
checking size of void *... 4
checking for pkg-config... no
configure: error: You need to install pkg-config
!!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 4, Exitcode 1
!!! ./configure failed
!!! emerge aborting on /usr/portage/dev-lang/mono/mono-0.13.ebuild .
#
Evidently, there's no pkg-config in emerge/the portage stuff (I'm still
horribly new to gentoo, and am not all that clear with the terminology.)
Would someone wrap it up in a bow for the rest of us?
to get your immediate problem of not being able to emerge this sorted, do this:
emerge --clean rsync
emerge pkgconfig
emerge mono
Meanwhile, someone will add pkgconfig as a dependency for mono.