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<h1 class="section">Undefining Variables</h1> <p>If you want to clear a variable, setting its value to empty is usually sufficient. Expanding such a variable will yield the same result (empty string) regardless of whether it was set or not. However, if you are using the <code>flavor</code> (see <a href="flavor-function">Flavor Function</a>) and <code>origin</code> (see <a href="origin-function">Origin Function</a>) functions, there is a difference between a variable that was never set and a variable with an empty value. In such situations you may want to use the <code>undefine</code> directive to make a variable appear as if it was never set. For example: </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">foo := foo
bar = bar
undefine foo
undefine bar
$(info $(origin foo))
$(info $(flavor bar))
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</div> <p>This example will print “undefined” for both variables. </p> <p>If you want to undefine a command-line variable definition, you can use the <code>override</code> directive together with <code>undefine</code>, similar to how this is done for variable definitions: </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">override undefine CFLAGS
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