diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/pkg-config-wrapper/default.nix b/pkgs/build-support/pkg-config-wrapper/default.nix
index 3e5785d23988..f1bc5da5481d 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/pkg-config-wrapper/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/pkg-config-wrapper/default.nix
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 { stdenvNoCC
 , buildPackages
 , pkg-config
+, baseBinName ? "pkg-config"
 , propagateDoc ? pkg-config != null && pkg-config ? man
 , extraPackages ? [], extraBuildCommands ? ""
 }:
@@ -34,7 +35,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   shell = getBin stdenvNoCC.shell + stdenvNoCC.shell.shellPath or "";
 
-  inherit targetPrefix suffixSalt;
+  inherit targetPrefix suffixSalt baseBinName;
 
   outputs = [ "out" ] ++ optionals propagateDoc ([ "man" ] ++ optional (pkg-config ? doc) "doc");
 
@@ -63,7 +64,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
       echo $pkg-config > $out/nix-support/orig-pkg-config
 
-      wrap ${targetPrefix}pkg-config ${./pkg-config-wrapper.sh} "${getBin pkg-config}/bin/pkg-config"
+      wrap ${targetPrefix}${baseBinName} ${./pkg-config-wrapper.sh} "${getBin pkg-config}/bin/${baseBinName}"
     ''
     # symlink in share for autoconf to find macros
 
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/pkg-config-wrapper/setup-hook.sh b/pkgs/build-support/pkg-config-wrapper/setup-hook.sh
index 12b9af5e5837..34f1a999a82e 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/pkg-config-wrapper/setup-hook.sh
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/pkg-config-wrapper/setup-hook.sh
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ getTargetRoleWrapper
 
 addEnvHooks "$targetOffset" pkgConfigWrapper_addPkgConfigPath
 
-export PKG_CONFIG${role_post}=@targetPrefix@pkg-config
+export PKG_CONFIG${role_post}=@targetPrefix@@baseBinName@
 
 # No local scope in sourced file
 unset -v role_post
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 680177a2610a..228af7e55a53 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -10739,7 +10739,11 @@ in
 
   pmccabe = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/pmccabe { };
 
-  pkgconf = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/pkgconf {};
+  pkgconf-unwrapped = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/pkgconf {};
+  pkgconf = callPackage ../build-support/pkg-config-wrapper {
+    pkg-config = pkgconf-unwrapped;
+    baseBinName = "pkgconf";
+  };
 
   pkg-config-unwrapped = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/pkg-config { };
   pkg-config = callPackage ../build-support/pkg-config-wrapper {