Hello; I am using bash and Fedora. I have had this problem for a while, but haven't figured it out yet. When I change environment variables sometimes in a nested autoconf / configure software structure, I cannot get the old value to stop appearing in the configuration: Here is what I mean Inside the old source-nav tree it calls for the obsolete -fwritable-strings CFLAGS option Inside source/itcl/itcl/unix configure.in is if test "$itcl_cv_prog_gcc" = "yes" ; then CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -fwritable-strings -Wshadow -Wtraditional -Wall" fi Now when I take out -fwritable-strings and autoreconf, it still includes that in the configure here is the line in config.log: configure:3516: result: yes configure:3532: checking default compiler flags configure:3541: result: -fwritable-strings -Wshadow -Wtraditional -Wall checking default compiler flags... -fwritable-strings -Wshadow -Wtraditional -Wall How do I clear out old cache variables or make sure it doesn't take the old values? Thank you, Dave _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf