Re: --display on solaris ?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Adam Kopacz <adam.k@idnet.de> writes:

> hi,
> 
> the long options stuff don't work on solaris..
> so what is the short command_line option for gdk/gtk apps for --dosplay ?
> on linux --display works fine..

I'm very confused as to how they could not work - does the
shell intercept them or something? What about other GNU tools? 

(As a trivial example, are you able to configure GTK+ as

  configure --enable-debug

 ?)

Regards,
                                        Owen