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authorXavier Claessens <xavier.claessens@collabora.com>2018-10-27 14:36:24 -0400
committerXavier Claessens <xclaesse@gmail.com>2020-02-05 16:54:01 +0100
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pkgconfig: Generate -uninstalled.pc files
Closes: #3472.
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+## Uninstalled pkg-config files
+
+The `pkgconfig` module now generates uninstalled pc files as well. For any generated
+`foo.pc` file, an extra `foo-uninstalled.pc` file is placed into
+`<builddir>/meson-uninstalled`. They can be used to build applications against
+libraries built by meson without installing them, by pointing `PKG_CONFIG_PATH`
+to that directory. This is an experimental feature provided on a best-effort
+basis, it might not work in all use-cases.