More on that emacs-X problem in 3.2.1

[Thomas Russo]

Ok.  I just read the emacs "PROBLEMS" file, and seems like some people
have had this same "gethostbyname bombs if display is hostname:0"
problem too:

* Emacs won't work with X-windows if the value of DISPLAY is HOSTNAME:0.

Some people have found that Emacs was unable to connect to the local
host by name, as in DISPLAY=prep:0 if you are running on prep, but
could handle DISPLAY=unix:0.  Here is what tale at rpi.edu said:

      Seems as
    though gethostbyname was bombing somewhere along the way.  Well, we
    had just upgrade from SunOS 3.5 (which X11 was built under) to SunOS
    4.0.1.  Any new X applications which tried to be built with the pre
    OS-upgrade libraries had the same problems which Emacs was having.
    Missing /etc/resolv.conf for a little while (when one of the libraries
    was built?) also might have had a hand in it.

    The result of all of this (with some speculation) was that we rebuilt
    X and then rebuilt Emacs with the new libraries.  Works as it should
    now.  Hoorah.


So, is there a chance that 3.2.1 broke X libraries in some strange
way?  Has anybody ever run across such problems?
Thomas Russo
Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, University of Texas at Austin          
russo at chaos.utexas.edu or phib421 at utchpc.bitnet
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