dependencies: allow overriding pkg-config with PKG_CONFIG when setting pkgbin

Signed-off-by: Marc-Antoine Perennou <Marc-Antoine@Perennou.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mesonbuild/dependencies.py b/mesonbuild/dependencies.py
index 5f0c261b4..b76c3cbd9 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/dependencies.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/dependencies.py
@@ -123,7 +123,11 @@ class PkgConfigDependency(Dependency):
             pkgbin = environment.cross_info.config["binaries"]['pkgconfig']
             self.type_string = 'Cross'
         else:
-            pkgbin = 'pkg-config'
+            evar = 'PKG_CONFIG'
+            if evar in os.environ:
+                pkgbin = os.environ[evar].strip()
+            else:
+                pkgbin = 'pkg-config'
             self.type_string = 'Native'
 
         mlog.debug('Determining dependency %s with pkg-config executable %s.' % (name, pkgbin))