Re: Purpose of mk/find-prefix.mk

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:20:50PM -0500, J. Lewis Muir wrote:
> 
> I've noticed some packages (e.g. editors/OmegaT) use mk/find-prefix.mk
> to find the installation prefix of a particular package (e.g.
> devel/apache-ant) while others (e.g. devel/opengrok) just assume an
> installation prefix of a particular package (e.g. devel/apache-ant) to
> be "${PREFIX}".  What is the reason for using mk/find-prefix.mk instead
> of "${PREFIX}"?

Mostly historical, as pkgviews would effectively give a different PREFIX
for each installed package.

Joerg