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@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ keyword arguments.
D sources referred to by this pkg-config file
- `uninstalled_variables` used instead of the `variables` keyword argument, when
generating the uninstalled pkg-config file. Since *0.54.0*
+- `dataonly` field. (*since 0.54.0*) this is used for architecture-independent
+ pkg-config files in projects which also have architecture-dependent outputs.
Since 0.46 a `StaticLibrary` or `SharedLibrary` object can optionally be passed
as first positional argument. If one is provided a default value will be
diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/pkgconfig_dataonly.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/pkgconfig_dataonly.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+## Introduce dataonly for the pkgconfig module
+This allows users to disable writing out the inbuilt variables to
+the pkg-config file as they might actualy not be required.
+
+One reason to have this is for architecture-independent pkg-config
+files in projects which also have architecture-dependent outputs.
+
+```
+pkgg.generate(
+ name : 'libhello_nolib',
+ description : 'A minimalistic pkgconfig file.',
+ version : libver,
+ dataonly: true
+)
+```