The option to output results in parquet format has been available since v3.8.0. To facilitate the linking of the Arrow Parquet libraries necessary for this, autotools uses pkg-config, which has become a prerequisite. Should this package be missing, a misleading error message is displayed, which can be interpreted to point towards the fault lying with the installation of the Arrow Parquet libraries.
A check for pkg-config has been introduced to the autotools build system. The new error message is more helpful:
checking for pkg-config... no
configure: error: cannot find pkg-config. Please install pkg-config and run ./configure again.
Add check for pkg-config in build system
The option to output results in parquet format has been available since v3.8.0. To facilitate the linking of the Arrow Parquet libraries necessary for this, autotools uses
pkg-config, which has become a prerequisite. Should this package be missing, a misleading error message is displayed, which can be interpreted to point towards the fault lying with the installation of the Arrow Parquet libraries.A check for
pkg-confighas been introduced to the autotools build system. The new error message is more helpful: