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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Copyright The Mbed TLS Contributors
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-or-later
+#
+# Purpose
+#
+# Test pkgconfig files.
+#
+# For each of the build pkg-config files, .pc files, check that
+# they validate and do some basic sanity testing on the output,
+# i.e. that the strings are non-empty.
+#
+# NOTE: This requires the built pc files to be on the pkg-config
+# search path, this can be controlled with env variable
+# PKG_CONFIG_PATH. See man(1) pkg-config for details.
+#
+
+set -e -u
+
+if [ $# -le 0 ]
+then
+    echo " [!] No package names specified" >&2
+    echo "Usage: $0 <package name 1> <package name 2> ..." >&2
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+for pc in "$@"; do
+    printf "testing package config file: ${pc} ... "
+    pkg-config --validate "${pc}"
+    version="$(pkg-config --modversion "${pc}")"
+    test -n "$version"
+    cflags="$(pkg-config --cflags "${pc}")"
+    test -n "$cflags"
+    libs="$(pkg-config --libs "${pc}")"
+    test -n "$libs"
+    printf "passed\n"
+done
+
+exit 0