diff --git a/src/libcamera/pipeline/meson.build b/src/libcamera/pipeline/meson.build
index 30dc5b97f1dc..f14869f3a3c0 100644
--- a/src/libcamera/pipeline/meson.build
+++ b/src/libcamera/pipeline/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
 
+# Location of pipeline specific configuration files
+pipeline_data_dir = libcamera_datadir / 'pipeline'
+
 foreach pipeline : pipelines
     subdir(pipeline)
 endforeach