diff --git a/src/c-stdaux/README.md b/src/c-stdaux/README.md
index 51bff9778..124c692e1 100644
--- a/src/c-stdaux/README.md
+++ b/src/c-stdaux/README.md
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ The requirements for this project are:
 
 At build-time, the following software is required:
 
- * `meson >= 0.41`
+ * `meson >= 0.60`
  * `pkg-config >= 0.29`
 
 ### Build
diff --git a/src/c-stdaux/meson.build b/src/c-stdaux/meson.build
index c8c5da536..367d8b5fe 100644
--- a/src/c-stdaux/meson.build
+++ b/src/c-stdaux/meson.build
@@ -1,15 +1,18 @@
 project(
         'c-stdaux',
         'c',
-        version: '1',
-        license: 'Apache',
         default_options: [
                 'c_std=c11'
         ],
+        license: 'Apache',
+        version: '1.0.0',
 )
+major = meson.project_version().split('.')[0]
 project_description = 'Auxiliary macros and functions for the C standard library'
 
 add_project_arguments('-D_GNU_SOURCE', language: 'c')
 mod_pkgconfig = import('pkgconfig')
 
 subdir('src')
+
+meson.override_dependency('libcstdaux-'+major, libcstdaux_dep, static: true)
diff --git a/src/c-stdaux/src/meson.build b/src/c-stdaux/src/meson.build
index f6db824d2..7c2e3a13c 100644
--- a/src/c-stdaux/src/meson.build
+++ b/src/c-stdaux/src/meson.build
@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ if not meson.is_subproject()
         install_headers('c-stdaux.h')
 
         mod_pkgconfig.generate(
-                version: meson.project_version(),
-                name: 'libcstdaux',
-                filebase: 'libcstdaux',
                 description: project_description,
+                filebase: 'libcstdaux-'+major,
+                name: 'libcstdaux',
+                version: meson.project_version(),
         )
 endif
 
diff --git a/src/c-stdaux/src/test-basic.c b/src/c-stdaux/src/test-basic.c
index d58d561d2..15499353c 100644
--- a/src/c-stdaux/src/test-basic.c
+++ b/src/c-stdaux/src/test-basic.c
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ static void test_destructors(void) {
 
                 /* make sure c_closep() deals fine with negative FDs */
                 {
-                        _c_cleanup_(c_closep) int t = 0;
+                        _c_cleanup_(c_closep) _c_unused_ int t = 0;
                         t = -1;
                 }
 
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ static void test_destructors(void) {
                  * path works as well.
                  */
                 for (i = 0; i < 2; ++i) {
-                        _c_cleanup_(c_closep) int t = -1;
+                        _c_cleanup_(c_closep) _c_unused_ int t = -1;
 
                         t = eventfd(0, EFD_CLOEXEC);
                         c_assert(t >= 0);
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ static void test_destructors(void) {
 
                 /* make sure c_flosep() deals fine with NULL */
                 {
-                        _c_cleanup_(c_fclosep) FILE *t = (void *)0xdeadbeef;
+                        _c_cleanup_(c_fclosep) _c_unused_ FILE *t = (void *)0xdeadbeef;
                         t = NULL;
                 }
 
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ static void test_destructors(void) {
                  * path works as well.
                  */
                 for (i = 0; i < 2; ++i) {
-                        _c_cleanup_(c_fclosep) FILE *t = NULL;
+                        _c_cleanup_(c_fclosep) _c_unused_ FILE *t = NULL;
                         int tfd;
 
                         tfd = eventfd(0, EFD_CLOEXEC);