On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 18:50 +0000, James O'Gorman wrote: > Hmm, yeah, that makes a lot more sense. Would the PERL variable have to > be set in each module's Makefile then? (i.e. do they not inherit from > Makefile in the root?) That is correct. A separate make process is spawned for each of the subdirs. Cheers, Martin.