Ignoring .pc files in default pkgconfig path

[Paul Bender]

Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> I want pkg-config to ignore all .pc files in the default pkgconfig path. 
> I'm installing packages into a separate prefix, and I want to make sure 
> none of the packages installed by the system package manager are pulled 
> in. So I'd rather have the build process fail if the package isn't 
> installed in the separate prefix then having the system package pulled 
> in. Is that possible? I don't see any such option in the man page.
> 
> tom

I do this in my MiniMyth build system using PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR.