> What if I were to propose the idea of having "make" look at an envariable
> (e.g., "MAKESYSPATH", or maybe overload the old "VPATH"?) that, if set, would
> tell "make" where to look instead of "/usr/share/mk" and (for syspath)
> "/usr/share/mk/sys.mk"?  (i.e., overrule _PATH_DEFSYS{MK,PATH})

This would be a big win.   I have actually built special versions of
make with different paths to get around the lack of this feature.

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