Re: tlug: Japanese extensions on Sparc

["Eric S. Standlee" <root@example.com>]

Thanks for the info, I didn't know emacs was doing host lookup...

If it is the host lookup problem, then what is the fix?  Or is that
obvious from the output of strace?

Eric

On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote:

> From: "Eric S. Standlee" <root@example.com>
> 
> > Actually, I have had similar problems with i386 rpms.  The current version
> > of xemacs-mule which I am using takes forever to load and complains about
> > color matching, so I tried to install the SRPM and go that route, but it
> > wouldn't make...
> 
> The Emacsen (all of them, not only XEmacs) seem to insist on
> doing some hostname lookups during startup.  If you have a
> network configured, but it is not reachable, starting any of
> the Emacsen will take a long time.  You can easily check
> whether this is your problem.  Use `strace', as in
> 
>   strace xemacs
> 
> It will bombard you with tons of messages about the exeuted
> system calls.  If you hit the above mentioned problem, the
> output will stop once in a while (until the host lookup gets 
> a timeout), which leaves you plenty of time to read what the 
> delaying system call does.
> 
> (If it is the hostname lookup, recompiling won't help
> anyway, but you have to change your network configuration.)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Manuel
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