Megatest

			             mtconfig
				     environ-patt: "env-override"
				     given-toppath: toppath
				     pathenvvar: "MT_RUN_AREA_HOME"))
	     (first-rundat  (let ((toppath (if toppath 
					       toppath
					       (car first-pass))))
			      (read-config ;; (conc toppath "/runconfigs.config") ;; this should be converted to runconfig:read but it is non-trivial, leaving it for now.
			       (conc (if (string? toppath)
					 toppath
					 (get-environment-variable "MT_RUN_AREA_HOME"))
				     "/runconfigs.config")
			       *runconfigdat* #t 
			       sections: sections))))
	(set! *runconfigdat* first-rundat)

				    environ-patt: "env-override"
				    given-toppath: toppath
				    pathenvvar: "MT_RUN_AREA_HOME"))
		     (runconfigdat (begin     ;; this read of the runconfigs will see any adjustments made by re-reading megatest.config
				     (for-each (lambda (kt)
						 (setenv (car kt) (cadr kt)))
					       key-vals)
				     (read-config (conc toppath "/runconfigs.config") *runconfigdat* #t ;; consider using runconfig:read some day ...
						  sections: sections))))
		(if cancreate (configf:write-alist runconfigdat rccachef))
		(set! *runconfigdat* runconfigdat)
		(if cancreate (configf:write-alist *configdat* mtcachef))
		(if cancreate (set! *configstatus* 'fulldata))))
	    ;; no configs found? should not happen but let's try to recover gracefully, return an empty hash-table
	    (set! *configdat* (make-hash-table))
	    )))
     ;; else read what you can and set the flag accordingly
     (else
      (let* ((cfgdat   (find-and-read-config 
			(or (args:get-arg "-config") "megatest.config")
			environ-patt: "env-override"
			given-toppath: (get-environment-variable "MT_RUN_AREA_HOME")
			pathenvvar: "MT_RUN_AREA_HOME")))
	(if cfgdat
	    (let* ((toppath  (or (get-environment-variable "MT_RUN_AREA_HOME")(cadr cfgdat)))
		   (rdat     (read-config (conc toppath  ;; convert this to use runconfig:read!
						"/runconfigs.config") *runconfigdat* #t sections: sections)))
	      (set! *configinfo*   cfgdat)
	      (set! *configdat*    (car cfgdat))
	      (set! *runconfigdat* rdat)
	      (set! *toppath*      toppath)
	      (set! *configstatus* 'partial))
	    (begin