diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 8294c18..b1e80bb 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.1.2
\ No newline at end of file
+0.1.3
diff --git a/cmake/libe3.pc.in b/cmake/libe3.pc.in
index cd36b94..b37b934 100644
--- a/cmake/libe3.pc.in
+++ b/cmake/libe3.pc.in
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-prefix=@CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX@
+prefix=@LIBE3_PC_PREFIX@
 exec_prefix=${prefix}
-libdir=${prefix}/@CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR@
-includedir=${prefix}/@CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR@
-datarootdir=${prefix}/@CMAKE_INSTALL_DATADIR@
+libdir=@LIBE3_PC_LIBDIR@
+includedir=@LIBE3_PC_INCLUDEDIR@
+datarootdir=@LIBE3_PC_DATAROOTDIR@
 # Root of the installed service-model definitions; each SM lives in its own
 # subdir, e.g. ${smdir}/sm_simple/e3sm_simple.asn (ASN.1) and .../e3sm_simple.proto
 # (Protobuf) — both are installed. Query with: pkg-config --variable=smdir libe3
diff --git a/cmake/libe3Install.cmake b/cmake/libe3Install.cmake
index 4982b1f..9b033df 100644
--- a/cmake/libe3Install.cmake
+++ b/cmake/libe3Install.cmake
@@ -24,10 +24,66 @@ if(LIBE3_PUBLIC_DEFS)
                 "libe3: PUBLIC compile definition '${_def}' is a generator "
                 "expression and cannot be exported through libe3.pc")
         endif()
+        if(_def MATCHES "\"")
+            # pkg-config's Cflags tokenizer strips unescaped quotes, so a string
+            # macro exported this way reaches the compiler as a bare token and
+            # fails to lex. Escaping as \\" survives pkg-config and works for
+            # CMake consumers, but then breaks `cc $(pkg-config --cflags libe3)`
+            # with an unterminated string -- no single form is safe for both
+            # consumption styles. Keep string-valued macros PRIVATE and give the
+            # header an #ifndef fallback instead (see LATREC_DEFAULT_DIR).
+            message(FATAL_ERROR
+                "libe3: PUBLIC compile definition '${_def}' has a quoted value "
+                "and cannot be exported through libe3.pc -- make it PRIVATE")
+        endif()
         string(APPEND LIBE3_PC_CFLAGS " -D${_def}")
     endforeach()
 endif()
 
+# Make libe3.pc relocatable. CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX is a configure-time value, so
+# baking it in makes the file describe where the build *expected* to be installed
+# rather than where it ended up: `cmake --install --prefix <other>`, and any
+# packaging step that stages into a different root, moves every file but cannot
+# rewrite the .pc. The result points a consumer's -I/-L and `smdir` at a prefix
+# that may contain no libe3 at all -- and pkg-config reports success while doing
+# it, so the failure surfaces later as a missing header. pkg-config expands
+# ${pcfiledir} to the directory holding the .pc, so deriving the prefix from that
+# describes wherever the file actually is. The CMake package config is already
+# relocatable through @PACKAGE_INIT@; this makes the pkg-config path agree.
+#
+# GNUInstallDirs allows any component directory to be absolute, in which case it
+# is not under the prefix and there is nothing relative to derive -- those keep
+# their absolute value, and an absolute libdir also leaves the prefix itself with
+# no relative form, since that is where the .pc lands.
+if(IS_ABSOLUTE "${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}")
+    set(LIBE3_PC_PREFIX "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}")
+else()
+    file(RELATIVE_PATH _libe3_pc_to_prefix
+        "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}/pkgconfig"
+        "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}")
+    string(REGEX REPLACE "/+$" "" _libe3_pc_to_prefix "${_libe3_pc_to_prefix}")
+    if(_libe3_pc_to_prefix STREQUAL "")
+        set(LIBE3_PC_PREFIX "\${pcfiledir}")
+    else()
+        set(LIBE3_PC_PREFIX "\${pcfiledir}/${_libe3_pc_to_prefix}")
+    endif()
+endif()
+
+# CMAKE_INSTALL_DATADIR is empty in the cache until GNUInstallDirs derives it
+# from DATAROOTDIR, so read the derived value rather than the cache entry.
+foreach(_pair "LIBDIR:${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}"
+              "INCLUDEDIR:${CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR}"
+              "DATAROOTDIR:${CMAKE_INSTALL_DATAROOTDIR}")
+    string(REPLACE ":" ";" _pair "${_pair}")
+    list(GET _pair 0 _name)
+    list(GET _pair 1 _dir)
+    if(IS_ABSOLUTE "${_dir}")
+        set(LIBE3_PC_${_name} "${_dir}")
+    else()
+        set(LIBE3_PC_${_name} "\${prefix}/${_dir}")
+    endif()
+endforeach()
+
 configure_file(
     "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/libe3.pc.in"
     "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/libe3.pc"
diff --git a/cmake/libe3Targets.cmake b/cmake/libe3Targets.cmake
index 65df668..fc76750 100644
--- a/cmake/libe3Targets.cmake
+++ b/cmake/libe3Targets.cmake
@@ -82,8 +82,17 @@ if(LIBE3_ENABLE_LATREC)
     # registry compiled in, or vice versa.
     target_compile_definitions(libe3 PUBLIC LIBE3_ENABLE_LATREC)
     if(LATREC_DEFAULT_DIR)
+        # PRIVATE, unlike the flag above. latrec_open_in() applies this fallback
+        # from src/core/latrec.c -- libe3's own translation unit -- so every
+        # caller of latrec_tls_open_as() inherits it without needing the macro
+        # itself. Exporting it would put a quoted string macro in libe3.pc,
+        # where pkg-config's tokenizer strips the quotes and the bare path then
+        # fails to lex ("expected expression before '/'"). Escaping as \\" keeps
+        # CMake consumers working but breaks `cc $(pkg-config --cflags libe3)`
+        # with an unterminated string, so there is no form that is safe for
+        # both. It is also a build-tree path, meaningless once installed.
         target_compile_definitions(libe3
-            PUBLIC LATREC_DEFAULT_DIR=\"${LATREC_DEFAULT_DIR}\")
+            PRIVATE LATREC_DEFAULT_DIR=\"${LATREC_DEFAULT_DIR}\")
     endif()
 endif()
 
@@ -152,8 +161,9 @@ endif()
 if(LIBE3_ENABLE_LATREC)
     target_compile_definitions(libe3_shared PUBLIC LIBE3_ENABLE_LATREC)
     if(LATREC_DEFAULT_DIR)
+        # PRIVATE for the same reason as the static target above.
         target_compile_definitions(libe3_shared
-            PUBLIC LATREC_DEFAULT_DIR=\"${LATREC_DEFAULT_DIR}\")
+            PRIVATE LATREC_DEFAULT_DIR=\"${LATREC_DEFAULT_DIR}\")
     endif()
 endif()