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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, bde@freefall.freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make make.1 
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
>>   #define	_PATH_DEFSYSMK		"/usr/share/mk/sys.mk"
>
>Actually, since you're in there already.. :-)
>
>Some folks have asked for the ability to use their own sys.mk and
>override the hardwiring in make.  That certainly makes sense to me, so
>maybe _PATH_DEFSYSMK should have an optional "HOST_ROOT" environment
>variable expanded before it, or something to that effect?

Use #define	_PATH_DEFSYSMK		"sys.mk"
and the -I option for make(1) will work for sys.mk like
for bsd.prog.mk, bsd.lib.mk etc.

Wolfram