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@guziy , @zbeekman I have the same problem on my cubietruck, which is running Ubuntu LTS. A new LTS is due in less than 3 months time. Do you intend...

@guziy What OS + version are you using? My pkg-config is at version 0.26, and I'm using an LTS.

@guzly If you don't have admin privileges, there are (legitimate) ways around it. The standard location for per-user files is ~/.local. So binaries would typically be installed in ~/.local/bin, etc....

Hmmm, I suspect the problem is with automake. On my Ubuntu LTS, $ automake --version automake (GNU automake) 1.14.1 $ automake Makefile.am:3: error: 'pkgconfig_DATA' is used but 'pkgconfigdir' is undefined...

In fact, I'm not sure what the problem is wrt to the older versions of automake.

Hold on, I might have a solution.

Ah. Got it, I think. Standby.

@guziy et al : OK. I think I got it. the latest patch I submitted should fix everyone (!). autoreconf -i now works on my Ubuntu LTS, so it should...

Your best bet may be to enter text as a string, e.g. `"12 Oct 2017"`. The format you adopt is very flexible. You can convert that into a number using...