diff --git a/nettle/ChangeLog b/nettle/ChangeLog
index 26d9e27046e75ef34467c7870ea376618f3ba4ba..c529ee2ef25892d37ab6fbcb0cbb162865b34a6d 100644
--- a/nettle/ChangeLog
+++ b/nettle/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2011-07-20  Niels Möller  <nisse@lysator.liu.se>
+
+	* configure.ac: Generate nettle.pc and hogweed.pc.
+
+	* nettle.pc.in, hogweed.pc.in: New files.
+
 2011-07-17  Niels Möller  <nisse@lysator.liu.se>
 
 	* nettle-internal.h: Added missing extern declarations.
diff --git a/nettle/configure.ac b/nettle/configure.ac
index a57c4bc3003c99c2c5ccea46794514b767914316..b335b93d674348abd4cc7f303252962e2ed8a6db 100644
--- a/nettle/configure.ac
+++ b/nettle/configure.ac
@@ -606,6 +606,7 @@ fi
 
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([config.make config.m4 Makefile])
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([tools/Makefile testsuite/Makefile examples/Makefile])
+AC_CONFIG_FILES([nettle.pc hogweed.pc])
 
 AC_OUTPUT
 
diff --git a/nettle/hogweed.pc.in b/nettle/hogweed.pc.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..457f5f2f3ecdecf6b5c90e61c5f2f2600233c94a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nettle/hogweed.pc.in
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+prefix=@prefix@
+exec_prefix=@exec_prefix@
+libdir=@libdir@
+includedir=@includedir@
+
+# Uses Requires.private and Libs.private, under the assumption that
+# when using shared libraries, the ELF dependencies from libhogweed.so
+# to nettle and gmp work.
+
+Name: Hogweed
+Description: Nettle low-level cryptographic library (public-key algorithms)
+URL: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle
+Version: @PACKAGE_VERSION@
+Requires.private: nettle
+Libs: -L${libdir} -lhogweed
+Libs.private: -lgmp
+Cflags: -I${includedir}
+
diff --git a/nettle/nettle.pc.in b/nettle/nettle.pc.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..eb0020caadc2ffa8419952b3b226561ce01ad0b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nettle/nettle.pc.in
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+prefix=@prefix@
+exec_prefix=@exec_prefix@
+libdir=@libdir@
+includedir=@includedir@
+
+Name: Nettle
+Description: Nettle low-level cryptographic library (symmetric algorithms)
+URL: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle
+Version: @PACKAGE_VERSION@
+Libs: -L${libdir} -lnettle
+Cflags: -I${includedir}