Bug#644257: pkg-config file broken

[David Bremner]

On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:17:36 +0200, Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> thanks for fixing #637692. I was about to use the library, but stumbled
> over another problem: The pkg-config file is broken; it contains
> backslashes before $ where it should not. The problem is already present
> in the source file in packageconfig_start – I assume that removing all
> backslashes therein would fix it.
> 

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but how can I test the pkg-config
file to make sure it isn't broken after applying the proposed patch?

Thanks,

David