All our Tru64 build logs have a long list of recursive directory listings rooted at ${BUILDDIR}/.. near the top (see below). I suspect it comes from the script that invokes the top level makefile. Andrew, can you look into what's causing it when you have a moment and if it is something in your script get rid of it? http://people.apache.org/~sebor/stdcxx/results/tru64_51-compaq-7.1-15d-log.gz.txt Thanks Martin