On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:

> INSTALLATION_DIRS is only needed when installing from sources; that's because
> it's in bsd.pkg.mk.  When the package gets created, with a file inside the
> man/man1 directory, that directory will get created when extracting the
> package (tarball), so the file can be placed in it.
>
> ${MKDIR} lines and/or MAKE_DIRS, are only needed to create empty directories.
>
> Hope this helps, if I understood you properly.

Yes, that explains it. Thank you!

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/