Re: jellyfish: Syntax error in configure when using autoreconf

[Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>]

Hi,

Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> writes:
> I'm trying to ugrade jellyfish which is maintained here
>
>    Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/debian-med/jellyfish.git
>
> I'm using autoreconf and when building the package this leads to
>
> ...
> checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
> checking for md5sum... md5sum
> checking for yaggo... /usr/bin/yaggo
> ./configure: line 15474: syntax error near unexpected token `VALGRIND,'
> ./configure: line 15474: `      PKG_CHECK_MODULES(VALGRIND, valgrind >= 1.8.0)'
> ==> config.log <==
> This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
> ...

The PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro is not substituted. You probably need a
build-dependency on pkg-config.

Ansgar