Re: Purpose of mk/find-prefix.mk

["J. Lewis Muir" <jlmuir%imca-cat.org@localhost>]

On 10/17/14 11:59 PM, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> Even more historically...
>
> At the start, X11 packages were installed into X11BASE, and others
> into LOCALBASE (the names come from FreeBSD's ports).  PREFIX was set
> to whichever location (X11BASE or LOCALBASE) was pertinent.  Over the
> first few years we moved things so that everything installed into
> LOCALBASE.

That's interesting because the pkgsrc developer's guide still talks
about X11BASE (and X11PREFIX) in the section titled "Program location":

  https://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/build.html#build.prefix

Does the developer's guide need to be updated?

Regards,

Lewis