diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index b983bf74..72837314 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -2773,6 +2773,7 @@ Winfried K
  for adding initialization of cDvbFrontend::frontendInfo
  for improving handling missing VDRPluginDestroyer()
  for fixing a compiler warning
+ for fixing handling $(PKG_CONFIG) in newplugin
 
 Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@web.de>
  for adding the command line option --userdump to enable core dumps in case VDR
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 87a8cedc..dfd3e936 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -9569,7 +9569,7 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Events in the past are no longer marked as having a timer in the Schedules
   menu.
 
-2021-01-01:
+2021-01-02:
 
 - Fixed strreplace() to handle NULL strings (reported by Jürgen Schneider).
 - Somewhere down the road the 'x' bit of Doxyfile.filter got lost, so the
@@ -9577,3 +9577,4 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Using strgetlast() in more places.
 - Fixed a crash in the SVDRP command CLRE in case a non-existing channel number is
   given (reported by Manuel Reimer).
+- Fixed handling $(PKG_CONFIG) in newplugin (thanks to Winfried Köhler).
diff --git a/newplugin b/newplugin
index e51d45cb..4a7d68b7 100755
--- a/newplugin
+++ b/newplugin
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 # See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
 # how to reach the author.
 #
-# $Id: newplugin 4.4 2020/06/22 15:08:46 kls Exp $
+# $Id: newplugin 5.1 2021/01/02 14:32:20 kls Exp $
 
 $PLUGIN_NAME = $ARGV[0] || die "Usage: newplugin <name>\n";
 
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ VERSION = \$(shell grep 'static const char \\*VERSION *=' \$(PLUGIN).c | awk '{
 
 # Use package data if installed...otherwise assume we're under the VDR source directory:
 PKG_CONFIG ?= pkg-config
-PKGCFG = \$(if \$(VDRDIR),\$(shell $(PKG_CONFIG) --variable=\$(1) \$(VDRDIR)/vdr.pc),\$(shell PKG_CONFIG_PATH="\$\$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:../../.." $(PKG_CONFIG) --variable=\$(1) vdr))
+PKGCFG = \$(if \$(VDRDIR),\$(shell \$(PKG_CONFIG) --variable=\$(1) \$(VDRDIR)/vdr.pc),\$(shell PKG_CONFIG_PATH="\$\$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:../../.." \$(PKG_CONFIG) --variable=\$(1) vdr))
 LIBDIR = \$(call PKGCFG,libdir)
 LOCDIR = \$(call PKGCFG,locdir)
 PLGCFG = \$(call PKGCFG,plgcfg)