Subject: bug#18713: Very slow startups with TERM=xterm

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 19:44:56 -0400

> I downloaded emacs-24.3.94 (I assume that’s what you intended?) and built it with:
> ./configure --prefix=`/bin/pwd` --with-x-toolkit=no --with-xpm=no --with-jpeg=no --with-png=no --with-gif=n
> o --with-tiff=no
> ./configure --prefix=`/bin/pwd` --with-x-toolkit=no --with-xpm=no --with-jpeg=no --with-png=no --with-gif=n
> o --with-tiff=no

> It has exactly the same behavior.  Starting it with TERM=xterm-256color, it
> takes a couple of seconds to get to the welcome screen.  Same pselect6()
> calls in the trace output:

Could you show the result of typing `C-h l' right after this slow startup?

        Stefan