1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/conf/multilib.conf b/meta/conf/multilib.conf
index 37e8481112..89a8e9096f 100644
--- a/meta/conf/multilib.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/multilib.conf
@@ -17,3 +17,10 @@ BBCLASSEXTEND_append = " ${MULTILIBS}"
 MULTILIB_GLOBAL_VARIANTS ?= "lib32 lib64 libx32"
 
 OPKG_ARGS_append = " --force-maintainer --force-overwrite"
+
+# When multilib is enabled, allarch recipes will be installed into the MACHINE
+# sysroot, not MLPREFIXMACHINE.  This means that anything using pkg-config to
+# find an allarch pkgconfig file will fail as the PKG_CONFIG_PATH only looks
+# inside the multilib sysroot.  Fix this by explicitly adding the MACHINE's
+# architecture-independent pkgconfig location to PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
+PKG_CONFIG_PATH .= ":${STAGING_DIR}/${MACHINE}${datadir}/pkgconfig"