Re: meson: missing pkg-config ?

Benoît Rouits <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:25:42 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.mentors
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

Le 30/07/2026 à 10:32, Andrey Rakhmatullin a écrit :
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 10:02:04AM +0200, Benoît Rouits wrote:
>> While trying to build a personal Debian package for my program 
>> ebur128adjust* (not in Debian) I experience an issue with a missing 
>> meson debian dependency/recommendation: pkg-config. however, pkgconf 
>> is installed but meson seem to have no knowledge of it.
> 
> pkgconf ships /usr/bin/pkg-config.

Thanks for your reply. I put pkgconf in the Build-Depends, then.

And after reflection I understand this (pkgconf or pkg-config) is not a 
requirement for meson to work. Just an option among other.

Thanks,
  Benoît