diff --git a/bin/x86_64-unknown-redox-pkg-config b/bin/x86_64-unknown-redox-pkg-config
index db91a59aed16f3fab4c5f6e4a13cc521965f8f89..7693e6210839433611c17fcae95bde2082341700 100644
--- a/bin/x86_64-unknown-redox-pkg-config
+++ b/bin/x86_64-unknown-redox-pkg-config
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-export PKG_CONFIG_DIR=
+export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=
 export PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR="${COOKBOOK_RECIPE}/sysroot"
 export PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR="${PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR}/lib/pkgconfig"
 
diff --git a/config.sh b/config.sh
index 6e21f242d1e1f94cbc1e1d27b18524f8214d7f7f..da7b8902ee28d8ea72701f366bec061e4d3b6d14 100755
--- a/config.sh
+++ b/config.sh
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ export LD="${HOST}-ld"
 export NM="${HOST}-nm"
 export OBJCOPY="${HOST}-objcopy"
 export OBJDUMP="${HOST}-objdump"
-export PKG_CONFIG="${HOST}-pkg-config"
+#export PKG_CONFIG="${HOST}-pkg-config"
 export RANLIB="${HOST}-ranlib"
 export READELF="${HOST}-readelf"
 export STRIP="${HOST}-strip"
diff --git a/cook.sh b/cook.sh
index c99c2f7220327605236d04eb2a64e35e3584e91f..3de6157b3364839d5d032689327e5a078559bb62 100755
--- a/cook.sh
+++ b/cook.sh
@@ -423,6 +423,8 @@ then
     then
         export COOKBOOK_RECIPE="${ROOT}/recipes/$1"
 
+
+        export PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_CROSS=1
         export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=
         export PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR="${COOKBOOK_RECIPE}/sysroot/lib/pkgconfig"
         export PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR="${COOKBOOK_RECIPE}/sysroot"
diff --git a/recipes/extrautils/recipe.sh b/recipes/extrautils/recipe.sh
index f36cbfcab50c3c32ca5256a624a6c2228bd2f58f..cef3940acac27099e1397669178efe04f9b6f08e 100644
--- a/recipes/extrautils/recipe.sh
+++ b/recipes/extrautils/recipe.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,2 @@
 GIT=https://github.com/redox-os/extrautils.git
 BUILD_DEPENDS=(xz)
-export PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_CROSS=1
-export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=
-export PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR="$PWD/sysroot/lib/pkgconfig"
-export PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR="$PWD/sysroot"