diff --git a/package/rene/pkgconfig/parse-config b/package/rene/pkgconfig/parse-config
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4fd743805
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/rene/pkgconfig/parse-config
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+
+# Move the /pkgconfig/ files to :dev packages
+# (won't be used if splitdesc_dev is not defined)
+splitreg 42 dev '/pkgconfig/'
+
+# Never assume a dependency just because of reading a .pc file
+var_append flistrfilter "|" '.*/pkgconfig/.*\.pc'
+
diff --git a/package/x11/xfree86/xfree86.conf b/package/x11/xfree86/xfree86.conf
index e90a0e33b..cb797a43c 100644
--- a/package/x11/xfree86/xfree86.conf
+++ b/package/x11/xfree86/xfree86.conf
@@ -86,5 +86,5 @@ else
 fi
 
 # don't put the modules in a :dev package
-splitreg 45 . '(/lib/modules/.*\.a)$|/include/'
+splitreg 45 . '/lib/modules/'
 
diff --git a/scripts/Build-Pkg b/scripts/Build-Pkg
index 4e546edd4..52a9c5804 100755
--- a/scripts/Build-Pkg
+++ b/scripts/Build-Pkg
@@ -459,16 +459,19 @@ fi
 #
 
 flistroot="bin boot etc lib sbin usr var opt"
-flistrfilter="ldconfig\..*:	.*|.*:	/var/adm/.*|.*/pkgconfig/.*\.pc"
+flistrfilter="ldconfig\..*:	.*|.*:	/var/adm/.*"
 flistdel="etc/ld.so.cache|var/tmp/.*|usr/tmp/.*|var/adm/logs/.*|.*\\.old"
 
 pkgsplits=""
 if [ "$ROCKCFG_SPLIT_DEV" != 0 ]; then
-	splitreg 40 dev '(/lib/.*\.a)$|/include/'
+	# this doesn't affect files in /lib, just /.../lib
+	# so there mustn't be an exception for linux kernel modules
+	splitreg 40 dev '(/lib/.*\.(la|a|o)$|/include/)'
 	splitdesc_dev() { desc_I="$desc_I (development files)"; }
 fi
 if [ "$ROCKCFG_SPLIT_DOC" != 0 ]; then
-	splitreg 60 doc '/share/(doc|man|info)/'
+	# only move doc/ to :doc, not man and info pages
+	splitreg 60 doc '/share/doc/'
 	splitdesc_doc() { desc_I="$desc_I (documentation)"; }
 fi
 
@@ -1064,6 +1067,8 @@ EOT
 		[ $found_errors != 0 ] && abort
 	fi
 
+	echo "Finished building $pkg=$xpkg."
+
 } 2>&1 | {
 
 	trap '' INT
diff --git a/scripts/functions b/scripts/functions
index 6f289cee9..d241203d7 100644
--- a/scripts/functions
+++ b/scripts/functions
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ splitreg() {
 splitapply() {
 	local p n r
 	sed -i "s/^[^ ]+/$1:/" $2
-	while read p n r; do
+	while read -r p n r; do
 		if [ "$n" = "." ]; then
 			echo "Applying package split: $p $1 $r"
 			sed -ri "\,$r, s/^[^ ]+/$1:/" $2