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authorMatthias C. M. Troffaes <matthias.troffaes@gmail.com>2021-06-05 00:49:02 +0100
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-06-04 16:49:02 -0700
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[doc] document vcpkg_fixup_pkgconfig merging behaviour (#18091)
* [doc] document vcpkg_fixup_pkgconfig merging behaviour * [doc] add source
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#[===[.md:
# vcpkg_fixup_pkgconfig
-Fix common paths in *.pc files and make everything relative to $(prefix)
+Fix common paths in *.pc files and make everything relative to $(prefix).
+Additionally, on static triplets, private entries are merged with their non-private counterparts,
+allowing pkg-config to be called without the ``--static`` flag.
+Note that vcpkg is designed to never have to call pkg-config with the ``--static`` flag,
+since a consumer cannot know if a dependent library has been built statically or not.
## Usage
```cmake