PREFIX and LOCALBASE

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

All,

the pkgsrc guide states in 17.2

"PREFIX always points to the location where the current pkg will be 
installed. When referring to a pkg's own installation path, use 
“${PREFIX}”.

LOCALBASE is where all non-X11 pkgs are installed. If you need to 
construct a -I or -L argument to the compiler to find includes and 
libraries installed by another non-X11 pkg, use “${LOCALBASE}”. The 
name LOCALBASE stems from FreeBSD, which installed all packages in 
/usr/local. As pkgsrc leaves /usr/local for the system administrator, 
this variable is a misnomer."

pkglint. OTOH, states

[hf@Hochstuhl] /<3>editors/xemacs > pkglint | grep LOCALBASE
WARN: Makefile:56: The LOCALBASE variable should not be used by 
packages.
WARN: Makefile:58: The LOCALBASE variable should not be used by 
packages.
[hf@Hochstuhl] /<3>editors/xemacs > 

When should I expect PREFIX to be different from LOCALBASE?

hauke

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