> 	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.)

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