diff --git a/sysc/init b/sysc/init
index 57ac930b..8c015283 100755
--- a/sysc/init
+++ b/sysc/init
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ export SOURCES=/usr/src
 export DESTDIR=/tmp/destdir
 export DISTFILES=/distfiles
 export SRCDIR="${SOURCES}"
+export HOME=/tmp
 
 # shellcheck source=sysa/helpers.sh
 . "${SOURCES}/helpers.sh"
diff --git a/sysc/run.sh b/sysc/run.sh
index 40da4083..02877686 100755
--- a/sysc/run.sh
+++ b/sysc/run.sh
@@ -55,4 +55,4 @@ fi
 
 build bash-5.1
 
-exec env -i PATH="${PATH}" PREFIX="${PREFIX}" SOURCES="${SOURCES}" DESTDIR="${DESTDIR}" DISTFILES="${DISTFILES}" SRCDIR="${SRCDIR}" bash run2.sh
+exec env -i PATH="${PATH}" PREFIX="${PREFIX}" SOURCES="${SOURCES}" DESTDIR="${DESTDIR}" DISTFILES="${DISTFILES}" SRCDIR="${SRCDIR}" HOME="${HOME}" bash run2.sh
diff --git a/sysc/run2.sh b/sysc/run2.sh
index e8f5baa7..a30da3f6 100755
--- a/sysc/run2.sh
+++ b/sysc/run2.sh
@@ -125,4 +125,5 @@ cd "/"
 if [ -e after.sh ]; then
     FILE=after.sh
 fi
-exec env -i PATH="${PATH}" PREFIX="${PREFIX}" SOURCES="${SOURCES}" DESTDIR="${DESTDIR}" DISTFILES="${DISTFILES}" bash ${FILE}
+
+exec env -i PATH="${PATH}" PREFIX="${PREFIX}" SOURCES="${SOURCES}" DESTDIR="${DESTDIR}" DISTFILES="${DISTFILES}" HOME="${HOME}" bash ${FILE}