On Fri, Apr 05, 2002, Amir Tal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the following: > whats surprising in all this is the fact that the --configure option works in > the XFree86 that comes with mandrake, and does not with RH. > its the same version in both disrto's (4.1.0-3). i thought that all options > are suppose to be the same for all distro's (was i wrong?)
Did you try using "-configure" instead of "--configure"? As a rule, programs
descended from MIT's X11 project always use a single dash for their long
options, rather than the GNU convention of a single dash for single-letter
options and a double dash for long options. The reason for this practice is to
confuse and frustrate Unix users everywhere.
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