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Fix -uninstalled pc files for out-of-tree builds. ${pcfiledir} expands to the directory that the .pc file is in. This isn't right for out-of-tree builds: we want to add the source directory to the include path. In the case of libpurple, we need both because some of the headers are generated.

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