Re: [Hamlib-developer] pkg-config 0.29.1 vs 0.29.2

[Adrian <vk...@gm...>]

Uwe, Perhaps the wrong place to ask, but I did not realize you use Mint 
for the deb packages for 'improved'

Is it useful for me to do them for you on debian trixie as well as macos 
Darwin ?

I always do my own here and do not use your debs.


73


vk4tux

On 21/11/25 05:27, Uwe, DG2YCB via Hamlib-developer wrote:
> Dear Hamlib developers,
>
> I noticed that the newest Hamlib source code can no longer be built on 
> Linux Mint 20.3 because pkg-config 0.29.2 has been specified in 
> configure.ac as the minimum version (see the following lines).
>
> dnl Ensure that the PKG_PREREQ macro is defined:
> m4_ifndef([PKG_PREREQ],
>     [m4_fatal([must install pkg-config (or pkgconf) 0.29.2 or later 
> before running bootstrap])])
>
> PKG_PREREQ([0.29.2])
> PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG([0.29.2])
>
> However, I found out that Hamlib still builds fine when I change this 
> to pkg-config 0.29.1, and that WSJT-X (Improved) works well with such 
> a Hamlib build in Mint 20.3.
>
> So my question is. Is there a specific reason why the pkg-config 
> specification has been changed to 0.29.2?
>
> I mean, I now know how to work around this, but in case it is just a 
> self-imposed hurdle, could this perhaps be set to 0.29.1?
>
> FYI: I still need my old Mint 20.3 system from time to time to create 
> Debian packages of WSJT-X (Improved) for OMs who cannot handle my 
> usual packages which are compiled on the latest Mint 22.2 system.
>
> 73 de DG2YCB,
> Uwe
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