[BUG]: pybind11-config sometimes give wrong result

[user202729]

What version (or hash if on master) of pybind11 are you using?

latest

Problem description

when I install matplotlib in editable mode, with pybind11 installed in --user home directory but not globally, error about header not found is raised.

context: matplotlib/matplotlib#29741 (comment)

Update: as mentioned in the linked issue, this is probably an issue with pip pypa/pip#13222

to reproduce:

# make sure pybind11 is not installed globally
pip install --user pybind11
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib
cd matplotlib
pip install -r requirements/dev/build-requirements.txt
pip install --verbose --no-build-isolation --editable ".[dev]"

Is this a regression? Put the last known working version here if it is.

Not a regression