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diff --git a/apps/Makefile b/apps/Makefile
index 1e80685e3..db75855ca 100644
--- a/apps/Makefile
+++ b/apps/Makefile
@@ -53,19 +53,28 @@ SUBDIRS = examples graphics interpreters namedapp nshlib netutils system vsn
-include .config
# INSTALLED_APPS is the list of currently available application directories. It
-# is the same as CONFIGURED_APPS, but filtered to exclude any non-existent apps.
-# namedapp is always in the list of applications to be built
+# is the same as CONFIGURED_APPS, but filtered to exclude any non-existent
+# application directory. namedapp is always in the list of applications to be
+# built.
INSTALLED_APPS = namedapp
# Create the list of available applications (INSTALLED_APPS)
define ADD_BUILTIN
-INSTALLED_APPS += ${shell if [ -r $1/Makefile ]; then echo "$1"; fi}
+INSTALLED_APPS += ${shell if [ -r $1/Makefile ]; then echo "$1"; fi}
endef
$(foreach BUILTIN, $(CONFIGURED_APPS), $(eval $(call ADD_BUILTIN,$(BUILTIN))))
+# The external/ directory may also be added to the INSTALLED_APPS. But there
+# is no external/ directory in the repository. Rather, this directory may be
+# provided by the user (possibly as a symbolic link) to add libraries and
+# applications to the standard build from the repository.
+
+INSTALLED_APPS += ${shell if [ -r external/Makefile ]; then echo "external"; fi}
+SUBDIRS += ${shell if [ -r external/Makefile ]; then echo "external"; fi}
+
# The final build target
BIN = libapps$(LIBEXT)