Index: subrun.scm
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--- subrun.scm
+++ subrun.scm
@@ -81,11 +81,12 @@
         (symlink-target (conc test-run-dir "/subrun-area"))
         )
   (when (not ra)      ;; when runarea is not set we default to *toppath*. However 
               ;; we need to force the setting in the testconfig so it will
           ;; be preserved in the testconfig.subrun file
-      (configf:set-section-var testconfig "subrun" "runarea" *toppath*))
+      (configf:set-section-var testconfig "subrun" "run-area" *toppath*)
+      (set! ra *toppath*))
     (configf:set-section-var testconfig "logpro" "subrun" logpro) ;; append the logpro rules to the logpro section as stepname subrun
 
     (if (common:file-exists? symlink-target)
         (delete-file symlink-target))