diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 36bd6494..67bce88a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 2/10/12 started 7.30.4
 - remove options from format string in .dzi (thanks Martin)
+- vipsCC.pc required the wrong version of vips (thanks Alessandro)
 
 13/9/12 started 7.30.3
 - linecache sized itself too large
diff --git a/vips.pc.in b/vips.pc.in
index 8d411991..9c702b02 100644
--- a/vips.pc.in
+++ b/vips.pc.in
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ exec_prefix=@exec_prefix@
 libdir=@libdir@
 includedir=@includedir@
 
-Name: vips-@VIPS_MAJOR_VERSION@.@VIPS_MINOR_VERSION@
+Name: vips
 Description: Image processing library
 Version: @VERSION@
 Requires: @PACKAGES_USED@
diff --git a/vipsCC.pc.in b/vipsCC.pc.in
index 0aca1b9a..7175c53b 100644
--- a/vipsCC.pc.in
+++ b/vipsCC.pc.in
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ exec_prefix=@exec_prefix@
 libdir=@libdir@
 includedir=@includedir@
 
-Name: vipsCC-@VIPS_MAJOR_VERSION@.@VIPS_MINOR_VERSION@
+Name: vipsCC
 Description: C++ API for vips image processing library
 Version: @VERSION@
-Requires: vips-@VIPS_MAJOR_VERSION@.@VIPS_MINOR_VERSION@ = @VERSION@
+Requires: vips = @VERSION@
 Libs: -L${libdir} -lvipsCC