diff --git a/curl.sh b/curl.sh
index b9d19de395..d9296885de 100644
--- a/curl.sh
+++ b/curl.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ version: "7.70.0"
 tag: curl-7_70_0
 license: curl
 source: https://github.com/curl/curl.git
+prepend_path:
+  PKG_CONFIG_PATH: "$CURL_ROOT/lib/pkgconfig"
 build_requires:
   - "OpenSSL:(?!osx)"
   - alibuild-recipe-tools