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On Wed, 08 Mar 2017 12:18:30 +0100 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> wr=
ote:
> 2) It did not occur to me that some ports would use the search path to
>    decide where to install their pc files.  I didn't know that was
>    possible, and I still don't understand how they do it, because there
>    is no documented command to retrieve that path.

pkg-config has a built-in pkg-config.pc file that can be queried.

% pkg-config --print-variables pkg-config
pc_path
% pkg-config --variable=3Dpc_path pkg-config
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig:/usr/libdata/pkgconfig