This helps figuring out why bootstrap.sh is failing...
Directing the error message to /dev/null was very strange. I don't
know what the original motivation might have been. My guess is that
it was added unintentionally.
# which will make PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG be undefined and the generated
# configure file faulty.
if ! pkg-config --version &>/dev/null; then
- echo "pkg-config is required to bootstrap this program" &>/dev/null
+ echo "pkg-config is required to bootstrap this program"
DIE=1
fi