diff --git a/textproc/urlview/Makefile b/textproc/urlview/Makefile
index cf2c4bd8316..39e0408978e 100644
--- a/textproc/urlview/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/urlview/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.7 2003/09/23 15:29:41 sturm Exp $
+# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.8 2003/09/23 15:49:49 sturm Exp $
 
 COMMENT=	"curses-based URL ripper"
 
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--with-slang=${LOCALBASE}
 CONFIGURE_ENV=	LIBS=-lcurses
 .endif
 
+pre-build:
+	@perl -pi -e "s,%%SYSCONFDIR%%,${SYSCONFDIR}," ${WRKSRC}/urlview.c
+
 post-install:
 	${INSTALL_DATA_DIR} ${PREFIX}/share/examples/urlview
 	${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/sample.urlview ${WRKSRC}/url_handler.sh \
diff --git a/textproc/urlview/patches/patch-urlview_c b/textproc/urlview/patches/patch-urlview_c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..72bf3257847
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/urlview/patches/patch-urlview_c
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+$OpenBSD: patch-urlview_c,v 1.1 2003/09/23 15:49:49 sturm Exp $
+--- urlview.c.orig	2003-09-09 10:22:06.000000000 +0200
++++ urlview.c	2003-09-09 10:22:21.000000000 +0200
+@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
+ 
+ #define DEFAULT_REGEXP "(((https?|ftp|gopher)://|(mailto|file|news):)[^' \t<>\"]+|(www|web|w3)\\.[-a-z0-9.]+)[^' \t.,;<>\"\\):]"
+ #define DEFAULT_COMMAND "url_handler.sh %s"
+-#define SYSTEM_INITFILE "/etc/urlview.conf"
++#define SYSTEM_INITFILE "%%SYSCONFDIR%%/urlview.conf"
+ 
+ #define OFFSET 2
+ #define PAGELEN (LINES - 1 - OFFSET)