> MACHINE_ARCH_DIRS= ${ARCHDIRS.${MACHINE_ARCH}} Does that work now? Didn't last I looked, which admittedly was quite a while back. (When I checked, it worked when, and only when, the inner variable was the formal of a .for loop.) der Mouse mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B