2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/pkgconfig.bbclass b/meta/classes/pkgconfig.bbclass
index f2054b0b07..416f34bb5c 100644
--- a/meta/classes/pkgconfig.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/pkgconfig.bbclass
@@ -23,6 +23,6 @@ do_stage_append () {
         for pc in `find ${S} -name '*.pc' -type f | grep -v -- '-uninstalled.pc$'`; do
                 pcname=`basename $pc`
                 install -d ${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}
-                cat $pc | sed ${@get_pkgconfig_mangle(d)} > ${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}/$pcname
+                cat $pc | sed ${@get_pkgconfig_mangle(d)} > ${PKG_CONFIG_DIR}/$pcname
         done
 }
diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
index 804b7fd444..cb5069ab67 100644
--- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
@@ -393,7 +393,8 @@ SLOT = "0"
 
 # Other
 
-export PKG_CONFIG_PATH = "${STAGING_DATADIR}/pkgconfig"
+export PKG_CONFIG_DIR = "${STAGING_DATADIR}/pkgconfig"
+export PKG_CONFIG_PATH = "${PKG_CONFIG_DIR}"
 export PKG_CONFIG_DISABLE_UNINSTALLED = "yes"
 
 export QMAKE_MKSPEC_PATH = "${STAGING_DIR}/${BUILD_SYS}/share/qmake"