The magic of the 'send' key: make -C /home/davidw/download/glibc-2.3.1/glibc-2.3.1 objdir=`pwd` linuxthread/others
is exactly what I was looking for:-) -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/