diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 852eed09b..acc825b39 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -652,8 +652,12 @@ JOIN("-I${DEPENDENCIES_INCLUDE_DIRS}" " -I" PKGCONFIG_OSRM_INCLUDE_FLAGS)
 # # the link libraries to be written to the pkg-config file.
 # # Conan & TBB define dependencies as CMake targets too, that's why we do the same for them.
 foreach(engine_lib ${ENGINE_LIBRARIES})
-  message(STATUS "Adding ${engine_lib} to pkg-config dependencies ")
-  list(APPEND PKGCONFIG_DEPENDENT_LIBRARIES "$<TARGET_LINKER_FILE:${engine_lib}>")
+  message(STATUS "Adding ${engine_lib} to pkg-config dependencies")
+  if("${engine_lib}" MATCHES "^boost.*" OR "${engine_lib}" MATCHES "^CONAN_LIB.*" OR "${engine_lib}" MATCHES "^TBB.*")
+    list(APPEND PKGCONFIG_DEPENDENT_LIBRARIES "$<TARGET_LINKER_FILE:${engine_lib}>")
+  else()
+    list(APPEND PKGCONFIG_DEPENDENT_LIBRARIES "${engine_lib}")
+  endif()
 endforeach(engine_lib)
 #message(FATAL_ERROR "XXX")
 # JOIN("${PKGCONFIG_DEPENDENT_LIBRARIES}" " " PKGCONFIG_OSRM_DEPENDENT_LIBRARIES)