https://github.com/json-c/json-c/commit/56a0e3f478c879c6a3f07b2ca6efa1ad2130d0e6

From 56a0e3f478c879c6a3f07b2ca6efa1ad2130d0e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tyler Erickson <tyler.erickson@seagate.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:48:20 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] fix installing json-c headers with meson and missing
 pkgconfig file

This commit fixes the install path for json-c headers when running `meson install`.
Previously some showed in /usr/include/ rather than /usr/include/json-c

This also adds generating the pkgconfig .pc file for this project.

Signed-off-by: Tyler Erickson <tyler.erickson@seagate.com>
---
 meson.build | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index d64f3be216..ebc9e462dc 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -265,12 +265,37 @@ libjson = library('json-c',
 jsonc_dep = declare_dependency(link_with: libjson, include_directories: inc)
 meson.override_dependency('json-c', jsonc_dep)
 
-# Install headers
-install_headers(
+# Install headers into json-c/ subdirectory (matches CMake layout)
+installed_headers = [
   'arraylist.h', 'debug.h', 'json_c_version.h', 'json_inttypes.h',
   'json_object.h', 'json_object_iterator.h', 'json_tokener.h',
   'json_types.h', 'json_util.h', 'json_visit.h', 'linkhash.h',
   'printbuf.h', json_configure_header, json_header
+]
+
+if not get_option('disable_json_pointer')
+  installed_headers += ['json_pointer.h']
+  if not get_option('disable_json_patch')
+    installed_headers += ['json_patch.h']
+  endif
+endif
+
+install_headers(installed_headers, subdir: 'json-c')
+
+# pkg-config file
+configure_file(
+  input: 'json-c.pc.in',
+  output: 'json-c.pc',
+  install: true,
+  install_dir: get_option('libdir') / 'pkgconfig',
+  configuration: {
+    'prefix': get_option('prefix'),
+    'exec_prefix': get_option('prefix'),
+    'libdir': get_option('libdir'),
+    'includedir': get_option('includedir'),
+    'VERSION': meson.project_version(),
+    'LIBS': '',
+  }
 )
 
 # Optional apps
@@ -281,4 +306,4 @@ endif
 # Optional tests
 if get_option('buildtype') == 'debug'
   subdir('tests')
-endif
+endif