@baseconfigdir@ is not expanded in fontconfig.pc $ cat /usr/lib/pkgconfig/fontconfig.pc prefix=/usr exec_prefix=${prefix} libdir=/usr/lib includedir=${prefix}/include sysconfdir=/etc localstatedir=/var PACKAGE=fontconfig confdir=@baseconfigdir@ cachedir=${localstatedir}/cache/${PACKAGE} Name: Fontconfig Description: Font configuration and customization library Version: 2.11.0 Requires: freetype2 Requires.private: expat Libs: -L${libdir} -lfontconfig Libs.private: -lexpat -lfreetype Cflags: -I${includedir} -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16 Fixed in upstream: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73686 At least the following package on my system is affected. $ qlist font-bh-ttf /@baseconfigdir@/conf.avail/42-luxi-mono.conf /@baseconfigdir@/conf.d/42-luxi-mono.conf /usr/share/fonts/TTF/luximbi.ttf /usr/share/fonts/TTF/luximb.ttf /usr/share/fonts/TTF/luximri.ttf /usr/share/fonts/TTF/luximr.ttf /usr/share/fonts/TTF/luxirbi.ttf /usr/share/fonts/TTF/luxirb.ttf /usr/share/fonts/TTF/luxirri.ttf /usr/share/fonts/TTF/luxirr.ttf /usr/share/fonts/TTF/luxisbi.ttf /usr/share/fonts/TTF/luxisb.ttf /usr/share/fonts/TTF/luxisri.ttf /usr/share/fonts/TTF/luxisr.ttf /usr/share/doc/font-bh-ttf-1.0.3/ChangeLog.bz2
*** Bug 491354 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
+*fontconfig-2.11.0-r1 (16 Jan 2014) + + 16 Jan 2014; Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> + -fontconfig-2.11.0.ebuild, +fontconfig-2.11.0-r1.ebuild, + +files/fontconfig-2.11.0-baseconfigdir_fix.patch: + Fixed baseconfigdir reference in pkgconfig file (bug #498246). +