Hello. As I realized while trying to port xerces-c version 3.1.1 in an test environment as suggested in the porters handbook, the software, which is capable of using the GNU autotoll environment, installs its xerces-c.pc file into ${PREFIX}/lib/pkgconfig/ and not according the FreeBSD paradigm into ${PREFIX}/libdata/pkgconfig/. I see three ports having already installed their obviously mislead *.pc file into ${PREFIX}/lib/pkgconfig/ in real-world-installations (libvlc.pc, lapackpp.pc and vlc-plugin.pc) on all of my FreeBSD boxes where these packages are installed - every other package using pkg-config seems to have their config files installed at the proper place and therefor ${PREFIX}/libdata/pkgconfig/ is well populated.

The question is: how can I trim my port's Makefile to accept and respect FreeBSD's path? I tried to figure out what directive has to be set and passed to any kind of environemnt, but the handbook silence this out. I have a faint clue that all directives tagged *_PC_* has to do something with this, but in ports I examined which install their pkg-config files in the proper way I did not find any hint.

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Thanks.