On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > values take. You can then unset the cache variable that autoconf uses > > before trying again. Here is some example code taken from one of my > > configure scripts: > > hmm - while I note that support for conventional Bourne shell was > abandoned sometime last year, no one seemed to have pointed out that > unset is one of those features that isn't as portable as one would like. Probably so. It hasn't bit me yet on any semi-modern system though. I don't know if Autoconf offers any reasonable alternative. Maybe Autoconf 2.12 offers a better solution? Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen