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diff --git a/=PROBLEMS b/=PROBLEMS index 73704c78bb3..efd376fc478 100644 --- a/=PROBLEMS +++ b/=PROBLEMS @@ -12,19 +12,18 @@ If this happens to you, extend the timeout period. * `expand-file-name' fails to work on any but the machine you dumped Emacs on. -On some systems, if you use any of the functions which look up -information in the passwd database before dumping Emacs (say, by using +On Ultrix, if you use any of the functions which look up information +in the passwd database before dumping Emacs (say, by using expand-file-name in site-init.el), then those functions will not work in the dumped Emacs on any host but the one Emacs was dumped on. -Apparently, the Yellow Pages (or Network Information Service) -functions cache information the first time they are called in the -undumped emacs, this information gets included in the dumped -executable, and it is then inaccurate if the executable is used on -another host. - The solution? Don't use expand-file-name in site-init.el, or in -anything it loads. Yuck. +anything it loads. Yuck - some solution. + +I'm not sure why this happens; if you can find out exactly what is +going on, and perhaps find a fix or a workaround, please let us know. +Perhaps the YP functions cache some information, the cache is included +in the dumped Emacs, and is then inaccurate on any other host. * On some variants of SVR4, Emacs does not work at all with X. |