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veithen edited this page Dec 22, 2013 · 1 revision

Prerequisites

pkg-config is required for building netcat from a checkout of the Git repository. If it is not available, then the generated configure script will fail with the following error:
```
  ./configure: line 8643: syntax error near unexpected token `CHECK,'
  ./configure: line 8643: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(CHECK, check >= 0.8.2, have_check="yes",'
```
Note that pkg-config is not required to execute the configure script, only to generate it. Therefore it is not a prerequisite for building netcat from a source package.
Check is required to execute the unit tests.

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