diff --git a/BUILD.NOTES b/BUILD.NOTES
index ce30059011cb3c570a455d68b3b0c1df37ccb42f..585cf685db15b4742d8224cc2c9ef69efde1924a 100644
--- a/BUILD.NOTES
+++ b/BUILD.NOTES
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ BlueGene build notes:
 	%_slurm_sysconfdir      /etc/slurm
 	%_with_bluegene         1
 	%_with_debug            1
-	%with_cflags		CFLAGS=-m64 CXX="g++ -m64"
+	%with_cflags		CFLAGS=-m64
    Build on Service Node with using the following syntax
    rpmbuild -ta slurm-...bz2
    The RPM files get written to the directory