libgeneral from source ends up as wrong version while building usbmuxd2?

[voltagex]

FROM debian:bookworm
ENV NOCONFIGURE=1
RUN apt update && apt install -y --no-install-recommends pkgconf automake autoconf g++ libtool git ca-certificates make
RUN git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/tihmstar/libgeneral /usr/src/libgeneral
WORKDIR /usr/src/libgeneral
RUN libtoolize && ./autogen.sh && ./configure --prefix=/output && make -j$(nproc) && make install


ENV PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/output/lib/pkgconfig/
RUN git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/tihmstar/usbmuxd2 /usr/src/usbmuxd2
WORKDIR /usr/src/usbmuxd2
RUN libtoolize && ./autogen.sh && ./configure --prefix=/output && make -j$(nproc) && make install

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 > [8/8] RUN libtoolize && ./autogen.sh && ./configure --prefix=/output && make -j$(nproc) && make install:
7.087
7.087 Package dependency requirement 'libgeneral >= 39' could not be satisfied.
7.087 Package 'libgeneral' has version '1', required version is '>= 39'
7.087
7.087 Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
7.087 installed software in a non-standard prefix.
7.087
7.087 Alternatively, you may set the environment variables libgeneral_CFLAGS
7.087 and libgeneral_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
7.087 See the pkg-config man page for more details.

Looking at https://github.com/tihmstar/libgeneral and taking a guess, I need to be using a tagged version of libgeneral.

[tihmstar]

The issue is

RUN git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/tihmstar/libgeneral /usr/src/libgeneral

The versioning is based on the number of commits to the repo. If you clone with depth=1, then your number of commits in the backlog is 1 and thus the version is set to 1.

Using the number of commits in a repo isn't ideal, but it is a quick and lazy approach which works "good enough" considering my aim was never to be a package maintainer.

I think if people re-package my tools into package managers, they should take care of correct versioning themselves if needed.

For now, to fix your issue, don't clone with depth=1