Lighttpd with -pcre support

Hello List:

I want to use mod_redirect with lighttpd to redirect any normal http request to secure https.
I get this error message:

Starting HTTP Server...
can't handle '$HTTP[host] =~ ...' as you compiled without pcre support.

I made sure -prce support was enabled in the menuconfig. Still no go. I hard coded the lighttpd.mk file to force --with pcre support. Still no go. I deleted both lighttpd and pcre-7.7 and watched buildroot re-configure and make them again. I still can't make lighttpd compile with pcre support.

Here is the output from lighttpd -V:

# lighttpd -V
lighttpd-1.4.20 (ssl) - a light and fast webserver
Build-Date: Feb 13 2009 00:04:10

Event Handlers:

+ select (generic)
+ poll (Unix)
+ rt-signals (Linux 2.4+)
+ epoll (Linux 2.6)
- /dev/poll (Solaris)
- kqueue (FreeBSD)

Network handler:

+ writev
+ mmap support

Features:

+ IPv6 support
- zlib support
- bzip2 support
+ crypt support
+ SSL Support
- PCRE support
- mySQL support
- LDAP support
- memcached support
- FAM support
- LUA support
- xml support
- SQLite support
- GDBM support

What am I doing wrong?

Best Regards,
Dan Pattison