On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 03:48:26PM +0200, Alexander Traud wrote: > To compile a (quite large) project, I had to install several packages > (dependencies). The project required the tool pkg-config. However, that > was not mentioned anywhere. Still the project compiled/built, because > one of the other dependencies (libsrtp2-dev) installed pkg-config as > side effect. So, I had pure luck that it succeeded.
libc6-dev depends on pkg-config, and build-essential depends on libc6-dev. So I don't think it's necessary. You're allowed to assume build-essential is installed, I believe.
