diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 8731d3b6ba..0122e1628f 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -87,7 +87,6 @@ tools/target_dec_%_fuzzer$(EXESUF): $(FF_DEP_LIBS)
 
 CONFIGURABLE_COMPONENTS =                                           \
     $(wildcard $(FFLIBS:%=$(SRC_PATH)/lib%/all*.c))                 \
-    $(wildcard $(FFLIBS:%=$(SRC_PATH)/lib%/version.h))              \
     $(SRC_PATH)/libavcodec/bitstream_filters.c                      \
     $(SRC_PATH)/libavformat/protocols.c                             \
 
@@ -109,6 +108,12 @@ $(1) :=
 $(1)-yes :=
 endef
 
+ifdef CONFIG_RAISE_MAJOR
+RAISE_MAJOR = 100
+else
+RAISE_MAJOR = 0
+endif
+
 define DOSUBDIR
 $(foreach V,$(SUBDIR_VARS),$(eval $(call RESET,$(V))))
 SUBDIR := $(1)/
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 804b0ce347..96a5e98330 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -6756,20 +6756,6 @@ NOREDZONE_FLAGS=$noredzone_flags
 LIBFUZZER_PATH=$libfuzzer_path
 EOF
 
-get_version(){
-    lcname=lib${1}
-    name=$(toupper $lcname)
-    file=$source_path/$lcname/version.h
-    eval $(awk "/#define ${name}_VERSION_M/ { print \$2 \"=\" \$3 }" "$file")
-    enabled raise_major && eval ${name}_VERSION_MAJOR=$((${name}_VERSION_MAJOR+100))
-    eval ${name}_VERSION=\$${name}_VERSION_MAJOR.\$${name}_VERSION_MINOR.\$${name}_VERSION_MICRO
-    eval echo "${lcname}_VERSION=\$${name}_VERSION"             >> ffbuild/config.mak
-    eval echo "${lcname}_VERSION_MAJOR=\$${name}_VERSION_MAJOR" >> ffbuild/config.mak
-    eval echo "${lcname}_VERSION_MINOR=\$${name}_VERSION_MINOR" >> ffbuild/config.mak
-}
-
-map 'get_version $v' $LIBRARY_LIST
-
 map 'eval echo "${v}_FFLIBS=\$${v}_deps" >> ffbuild/config.mak' $LIBRARY_LIST
 
 print_program_extralibs(){
@@ -6866,64 +6852,32 @@ if test -n "$WARNINGS"; then
     enabled fatal_warnings && exit 1
 fi
 
-# build pkg-config files
+# Settings for pkg-config files
 
-lib_version(){
-    eval printf "\"lib${1}${build_suffix} >= \$LIB$(toupper ${1})_VERSION, \""
-}
-
-pkgconfig_generate(){
-    name=$1
-    shortname=${name#lib}${build_suffix}
-    comment=$2
-    version=$3
-    libs=$4
-    requires=$(map 'lib_version $v' $(eval echo \$${name#lib}_deps))
-    requires=${requires%, }
-    enabled ${name#lib} || return 0
-    mkdir -p $name
-    cat <<EOF > $name/$name${build_suffix}.pc
+cat > ffbuild/config.sh <<EOF
+# Automatically generated by configure - do not modify!
+shared=$shared
+build_suffix=$build_suffix
 prefix=$prefix
-exec_prefix=\${prefix}
 libdir=$libdir
-includedir=$incdir
+incdir=$incdir
+rpath=$(enabled rpath && echo "-Wl,-rpath,\${libdir}")
+source_path=${source_path}
+LIBPREF=${LIBPREF}
+LIBSUF=${LIBSUF}
 
-Name: $name
-Description: $comment
-Version: $version
-Requires: $(enabled shared || echo $requires)
-Requires.private: $(enabled shared && echo $requires)
-Conflicts:
-Libs: -L\${libdir} $(enabled rpath && echo "-Wl,-rpath,\${libdir}") -l${shortname} $(enabled shared || echo $libs)
-Libs.private: $(enabled shared && echo $libs)
-Cflags: -I\${includedir}
+extralibs_avutil="$LIBRT $LIBM"
+extralibs_avcodec="$extralibs"
+extralibs_avformat="$extralibs"
+extralibs_avdevice="$extralibs"
+extralibs_avfilter="$extralibs"
+extralibs_avresample="$LIBM"
+extralibs_postproc=""
+extralibs_swscale="$LIBM"
+extralibs_swresample="$LIBM $LIBSOXR"
 EOF
 
-mkdir -p doc/examples/pc-uninstalled
-includedir=${source_path}
-[ "$includedir" = . ] && includedir="\${pcfiledir}/../../.."
-    cat <<EOF > doc/examples/pc-uninstalled/${name}-uninstalled.pc
-prefix=
-exec_prefix=
-libdir=\${pcfiledir}/../../../$name
-includedir=${includedir}
-
-Name: $name
-Description: $comment
-Version: $version
-Requires: $requires
-Conflicts:
-Libs: -L\${libdir} -Wl,-rpath,\${libdir} -l${shortname} $(enabled shared || echo $libs)
-Cflags: -I\${includedir}
-EOF
-}
-
-pkgconfig_generate libavutil     "FFmpeg utility library"               "$LIBAVUTIL_VERSION"     "$LIBRT $LIBM"
-pkgconfig_generate libavcodec    "FFmpeg codec library"                 "$LIBAVCODEC_VERSION"    "$extralibs"
-pkgconfig_generate libavformat   "FFmpeg container format library"      "$LIBAVFORMAT_VERSION"   "$extralibs"
-pkgconfig_generate libavdevice   "FFmpeg device handling library"       "$LIBAVDEVICE_VERSION"   "$extralibs"
-pkgconfig_generate libavfilter   "FFmpeg audio/video filtering library" "$LIBAVFILTER_VERSION"   "$extralibs"
-pkgconfig_generate libpostproc   "FFmpeg postprocessing library"        "$LIBPOSTPROC_VERSION"   ""
-pkgconfig_generate libavresample "Libav audio resampling library"       "$LIBAVRESAMPLE_VERSION" "$LIBM"
-pkgconfig_generate libswscale    "FFmpeg image rescaling library"       "$LIBSWSCALE_VERSION"    "$LIBM"
-pkgconfig_generate libswresample "FFmpeg audio resampling library"      "$LIBSWRESAMPLE_VERSION" "$LIBM $LIBSOXR"
+for lib in $LIBRARY_LIST; do
+    lib_deps="$(eval echo \$${lib}_deps)"
+    echo ${lib}_deps=\"$lib_deps\" >> ffbuild/config.sh
+done
diff --git a/ffbuild/.gitignore b/ffbuild/.gitignore
index 693b7aa0d3..38ed170752 100644
--- a/ffbuild/.gitignore
+++ b/ffbuild/.gitignore
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 /config.fate
 /config.log
 /config.mak
+/config.sh
diff --git a/ffbuild/common.mak b/ffbuild/common.mak
index 195737028a..e61f853ebb 100644
--- a/ffbuild/common.mak
+++ b/ffbuild/common.mak
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ COMPILE_HOSTC = $(call COMPILE,HOSTCC)
 %.h.c:
 	$(Q)echo '#include "$*.h"' >$@
 
-%.c %.h %.ver: TAG = GEN
+%.c %.h %.pc %.ver %.version: TAG = GEN
 
 # Dummy rule to stop make trying to rebuild removed or renamed headers
 %.h:
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ $(TOOLOBJS): | tools
 
 OBJDIRS := $(OBJDIRS) $(dir $(OBJS) $(HOBJS) $(HOSTOBJS) $(SLIBOBJS) $(TESTOBJS))
 
-CLEANSUFFIXES     = *.d *.o *~ *.h.c *.gcda *.gcno *.map *.ver *.ho *$(DEFAULT_YASMD).asm
+CLEANSUFFIXES     = *.d *.o *~ *.h.c *.gcda *.gcno *.map *.ver *.version *.ho *$(DEFAULT_YASMD).asm
 DISTCLEANSUFFIXES = *.pc
 LIBSUFFIXES       = *.a *.lib *.so *.so.* *.dylib *.dll *.def *.dll.a
 
diff --git a/ffbuild/library.mak b/ffbuild/library.mak
index 5e576d18cd..addc945168 100644
--- a/ffbuild/library.mak
+++ b/ffbuild/library.mak
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 include $(SRC_PATH)/ffbuild/common.mak
 
+-include $(SUBDIR)lib$(NAME).version
+
 LIBVERSION := $(lib$(NAME)_VERSION)
 LIBMAJOR   := $(lib$(NAME)_VERSION_MAJOR)
 LIBMINOR   := $(lib$(NAME)_VERSION_MINOR)
@@ -7,8 +9,8 @@ INCINSTDIR := $(INCDIR)/lib$(NAME)
 
 INSTHEADERS := $(INSTHEADERS) $(HEADERS:%=$(SUBDIR)%)
 
-all-$(CONFIG_STATIC): $(SUBDIR)$(LIBNAME)
-all-$(CONFIG_SHARED): $(SUBDIR)$(SLIBNAME)
+all-$(CONFIG_STATIC): $(SUBDIR)$(LIBNAME)  $(SUBDIR)lib$(NAME).pc
+all-$(CONFIG_SHARED): $(SUBDIR)$(SLIBNAME) $(SUBDIR)lib$(NAME).pc
 
 LIBOBJS := $(OBJS) $(SUBDIR)%.h.o $(TESTOBJS)
 $(LIBOBJS) $(LIBOBJS:.o=.s) $(LIBOBJS:.o=.i):   CPPFLAGS += -DHAVE_AV_CONFIG_H
@@ -31,6 +33,12 @@ $(TESTPROGS): THISLIB = $(SUBDIR)$(LIBNAME)
 $(TESTPROGS) $(TOOLS): %$(EXESUF): %.o
 	$$(LD) $(LDFLAGS) $(LDEXEFLAGS) $$(LD_O) $$(filter %.o,$$^) $$(THISLIB) $(FFEXTRALIBS) $$(ELIBS)
 
+$(SUBDIR)lib$(NAME).version: $(SUBDIR)version.h | $(SUBDIR)
+	$$(M) $$(SRC_PATH)/ffbuild/libversion.sh $(NAME) $$< $(RAISE_MAJOR) > $$@
+
+$(SUBDIR)lib$(FULLNAME).pc: $(SUBDIR)version.h | $(SUBDIR)
+	$$(M) $$(SRC_PATH)/ffbuild/pkgconfig_generate.sh $(NAME) "$(DESC)"
+
 $(SUBDIR)lib$(NAME).ver: $(SUBDIR)lib$(NAME).v $(OBJS)
 	$$(M)sed 's/MAJOR/$(lib$(NAME)_VERSION_MAJOR)/' $$< | $(VERSION_SCRIPT_POSTPROCESS_CMD) > $$@
 
diff --git a/ffbuild/libversion.sh b/ffbuild/libversion.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..687adf28bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ffbuild/libversion.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+toupper(){
+    echo "$@" | tr abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
+}
+
+name=lib$1
+ucname=$(toupper ${name})
+file=$2
+raise_major=$3
+
+eval $(awk "/#define ${ucname}_VERSION_M/ { print \$2 \"=\" \$3 }" "$file")
+eval ${ucname}_VERSION_MAJOR=$((${ucname}_VERSION_MAJOR+${raise_major}))
+eval ${ucname}_VERSION=\$${ucname}_VERSION_MAJOR.\$${ucname}_VERSION_MINOR.\$${ucname}_VERSION_MICRO
+eval echo "${name}_VERSION=\$${ucname}_VERSION"
+eval echo "${name}_VERSION_MAJOR=\$${ucname}_VERSION_MAJOR"
+eval echo "${name}_VERSION_MINOR=\$${ucname}_VERSION_MINOR"
diff --git a/ffbuild/pkgconfig_generate.sh b/ffbuild/pkgconfig_generate.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..e5de6716d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ffbuild/pkgconfig_generate.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+. ffbuild/config.sh
+
+if test "$shared" = "yes"; then
+    shared=true
+else
+    shared=false
+fi
+
+shortname=$1
+name=lib${shortname}
+fullname=${name}${build_suffix}
+comment=$2
+libs=$(eval echo \$extralibs_${shortname})
+deps=$(eval echo \$${shortname}_deps)
+
+for dep in $deps; do
+    depname=lib${dep}
+    fulldepname=${depname}${build_suffix}
+    . ${depname}/${depname}.version
+    depversion=$(eval echo \$${depname}_VERSION)
+    requires="$requires ${fulldepname} >= ${depversion}, "
+done
+requires=${requires%, }
+
+version=$(grep ${name}_VERSION= $name/${name}.version | cut -d= -f2)
+
+cat <<EOF > $name/$fullname.pc
+prefix=$prefix
+exec_prefix=\${prefix}
+libdir=$libdir
+includedir=$incdir
+
+Name: $fullname
+Description: $comment
+Version: $version
+Requires: $($shared || echo $requires)
+Requires.private: $($shared && echo $requires)
+Conflicts:
+Libs: -L\${libdir} $rpath -l${fullname#lib} $($shared || echo $libs)
+Libs.private: $($shared && echo $libs)
+Cflags: -I\${includedir}
+EOF
+
+mkdir -p doc/examples/pc-uninstalled
+includedir=${source_path}
+[ "$includedir" = . ] && includedir="\${pcfiledir}/../../.."
+    cat <<EOF > doc/examples/pc-uninstalled/${name}-uninstalled.pc
+prefix=
+exec_prefix=
+libdir=\${pcfiledir}/../../../$name
+includedir=${source_path}
+
+Name: $fullname
+Description: $comment
+Version: $version
+Requires: $requires
+Conflicts:
+Libs: -L\${libdir} -Wl,-rpath,\${libdir} -l${fullname#lib} $($shared || echo $libs)
+Cflags: -I\${includedir}
+EOF
diff --git a/libavcodec/Makefile b/libavcodec/Makefile
index 66d7587fb0..e3221184d1 100644
--- a/libavcodec/Makefile
+++ b/libavcodec/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-include $(SUBDIR)../ffbuild/config.mak
-
 NAME = avcodec
+DESC = FFmpeg codec library
 
 HEADERS = avcodec.h                                                     \
           avdct.h                                                       \
diff --git a/libavdevice/Makefile b/libavdevice/Makefile
index fb7623f713..c055d6718d 100644
--- a/libavdevice/Makefile
+++ b/libavdevice/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-include $(SUBDIR)../ffbuild/config.mak
-
 NAME    = avdevice
+DESC    = FFmpeg device handling library
 
 HEADERS = avdevice.h                                                    \
           version.h                                                     \
diff --git a/libavfilter/Makefile b/libavfilter/Makefile
index d19c555c91..0f990866e8 100644
--- a/libavfilter/Makefile
+++ b/libavfilter/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-include $(SUBDIR)../ffbuild/config.mak
-
 NAME = avfilter
+DESC = FFmpeg audio/video filtering library
 
 HEADERS = avfilter.h                                                    \
           avfiltergraph.h                                               \
diff --git a/libavformat/Makefile b/libavformat/Makefile
index d82639d123..4e169fdce5 100644
--- a/libavformat/Makefile
+++ b/libavformat/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-include $(SUBDIR)../ffbuild/config.mak
-
 NAME = avformat
+DESC = FFmpeg container format library
 
 HEADERS = avformat.h                                                    \
           avio.h                                                        \
diff --git a/libavresample/Makefile b/libavresample/Makefile
index 7d857a0e36..90f025a9f9 100644
--- a/libavresample/Makefile
+++ b/libavresample/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 NAME = avresample
+DESC = Libav audio resampling library
 
 HEADERS = avresample.h                                                  \
           version.h                                                     \
diff --git a/libavutil/Makefile b/libavutil/Makefile
index 0239c499f3..1fd8dca54b 100644
--- a/libavutil/Makefile
+++ b/libavutil/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-include $(SUBDIR)../ffbuild/config.mak
-
 NAME = avutil
+DESC = FFmpeg utility library
 
 HEADERS = adler32.h                                                     \
           aes.h                                                         \
diff --git a/libpostproc/Makefile b/libpostproc/Makefile
index 3c21f00a21..34317193a8 100644
--- a/libpostproc/Makefile
+++ b/libpostproc/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-include $(SUBDIR)../ffbuild/config.mak
-
 NAME = postproc
+DESC = FFmpeg postprocessing library
 FFLIBS = avutil
 
 HEADERS = postprocess.h        \
diff --git a/libswresample/Makefile b/libswresample/Makefile
index f50ee0d5a0..42666e4dd2 100644
--- a/libswresample/Makefile
+++ b/libswresample/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-include $(SUBDIR)../ffbuild/config.mak
-
 NAME = swresample
+DESC = FFmpeg audio resampling library
 FFLIBS = avutil
 
 HEADERS = swresample.h                       \
diff --git a/libswscale/Makefile b/libswscale/Makefile
index 19182b370e..5e03e6fa0a 100644
--- a/libswscale/Makefile
+++ b/libswscale/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-include $(SUBDIR)../ffbuild/config.mak
-
 NAME = swscale
+DESC = FFmpeg image rescaling library
 
 HEADERS = swscale.h                                                     \
           version.h                                                     \