> Date: Thu, 05 Jan 1995 12:08:50 -0800
> From: Ted Lemon <mellon@vix.com>

> > What if I were to propose the idea of having "make" look at an envariable

> 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.

What about using a little script in place of make?

#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/xcomp/bin/make -I/usr/xcomp/share/mk "$@"
echo "$0: exec failed"
exit 1