diff --git a/README-maintainer b/README-maintainer
index e7f525d9..166b1744 100644
--- a/README-maintainer
+++ b/README-maintainer
@@ -382,11 +382,16 @@ pytest -n auto
 
 * Run package tests:
 
-cmake -S . -B build.tmp -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
+(Note: can't use DESTDIR because pkg-config won't know about it.)
+
+\rm -rf /tmp/inst build.tmp
+cmake -S . -B build.tmp \
+    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/tmp/inst
 cmake --build build.tmp -j$(nproc)
-DESTDIR=/tmp/inst cmake --install build.tmp
-env PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/tmp/inst/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig \
-    CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/tmp/inst/usr/local \
+cmake --install build.tmp
+env PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/tmp/inst/lib/pkgconfig \
+    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp/inst/lib \
+    CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/tmp/inst \
    ./pkg-test/run-all
 
 
diff --git a/pkg-test/qpdf-version.cc b/pkg-test/qpdf-version.cc
index ab78cede..419b302f 100644
--- a/pkg-test/qpdf-version.cc
+++ b/pkg-test/qpdf-version.cc
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+#ifndef POINTERHOLDER_TRANSITION
+# define POINTERHOLDER_TRANSITION 4
+#endif
+
 #include <qpdf/QPDF.hh>
 #include <iostream>
 
diff --git a/pkg-test/test-cli b/pkg-test/test-cli
index 6b1c1d88..f69e546a 100755
--- a/pkg-test/test-cli
+++ b/pkg-test/test-cli
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@ if [ ! -d "$TMP" ]; then
     exit 2
 fi
 
-qpdf --version
+WANTED_VERSION=$(awk -F'"' '/#define QPDF_VERSION / {print $2}' include/qpdf/DLL.h)
+
+qpdf --version | grep -F $WANTED_VERSION
 qpdf --help
 qpdf --check qpdf/qtest/qpdf/minimal.pdf
 qpdf qpdf/qtest/qpdf/minimal.pdf --encrypt u o 256 -- $TMP/out.pdf
diff --git a/pkg-test/test-cmake b/pkg-test/test-cmake
index 4fd5846b..ab986f8e 100755
--- a/pkg-test/test-cmake
+++ b/pkg-test/test-cmake
@@ -11,8 +11,14 @@ if [ ! -d "$TMP" ]; then
     echo 1>&2 "Usage: $0 tmp-dir"
     exit 2
 fi
+
+WANTED_VERSION=$(awk -F'"' '/#define QPDF_VERSION / {print $2}' include/qpdf/DLL.h)
+
 cp pkg-test/qpdf-version.cc pkg-test/CMakeLists.txt $TMP
 cd $TMP
 cmake -S . -B build
 cmake --build build
-./build/qpdf-version
+if [ "$(./build/qpdf-version)" != "$WANTED_VERSION" ]; then
+    echo 1>&2 "Failed to get correct qpdf version from cmake test"
+    exit 2
+fi
diff --git a/pkg-test/test-pkg-config b/pkg-test/test-pkg-config
index 3624030a..ea469f1b 100755
--- a/pkg-test/test-pkg-config
+++ b/pkg-test/test-pkg-config
@@ -13,11 +13,18 @@ if [ ! -d "$TMP" ]; then
     exit 2
 fi
 
+WANTED_VERSION=$(awk -F'"' '/#define QPDF_VERSION / {print $2}' include/qpdf/DLL.h)
+
 cp pkg-test/qpdf-version.cc $TMP
 cd $TMP
-pkg-config libqpdf --modversion
+if [ "$(pkg-config libqpdf --modversion)" != "$WANTED_VERSION" ]; then
+    echo 1>&2 "Failed to get correct qpdf version from pkg-config --modversion"
+fi
 pkg-config libqpdf --libs --static
 g++ qpdf-version.cc -o qpdf-version \
     $(pkg-config libqpdf --cflags) \
     $(pkg-config libqpdf --libs)
-./qpdf-version
+if [ "$(./qpdf-version)" != "$WANTED_VERSION" ]; then
+    echo 1>&2 "Failed to get correct qpdf version from pkg-config test"
+    exit 2
+fi