diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/pkg-config-wrapper/default.nix b/pkgs/build-support/pkg-config-wrapper/default.nix
index 87efc3b18aa8..75390ab4b6ff 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/pkg-config-wrapper/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/pkg-config-wrapper/default.nix
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   inherit targetPrefix suffixSalt;
 
-  outputs = [ "out" ] ++ optionals propagateDoc [ "man" ];
+  outputs = [ "out" ] ++ optionals propagateDoc ([ "man" ] ++ optional (pkg-config ? doc) "doc");
 
   passthru = {
     inherit pkg-config;
@@ -87,13 +87,15 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
       printWords ${pkg-config} > $out/nix-support/propagated-user-env-packages
     ''
 
-    + optionalString propagateDoc ''
+    + optionalString propagateDoc (''
       ##
-      ## Man page and info support
+      ## Man page and doc support
       ##
 
       ln -s ${pkg-config.man} $man
-    ''
+    '' + optionalString (pkg-config ? doc) ''
+      ln -s ${pkg-config.doc} $doc
+    '')
 
     + ''
       substituteAll ${./add-flags.sh} $out/nix-support/add-flags.sh
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/pkg-config/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/pkg-config/default.nix
index 2cecb25eeeec..84f6c330f8c5 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/pkg-config/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/pkg-config/default.nix
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "14fmwzki1rlz8bs2p810lk6jqdxsk966d8drgsjmi54cd00rrikg";
   };
 
+  outputs = [ "out" "man" "doc" ];
+
   # Process Requires.private properly, see
   # http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4738, migrated to
   # https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pkg-config/pkg-config/issues/28