Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #34202] xboard has a 20-second startup delay running with Ubuntu 11.04

[h.g. muller]

One important difference between the previously reported bug
and what you report now would be that you now find this behavior
also in 4.2.x, while before it only manifested itself in 4.4.0.
I am not sure that taking a binary from one distribution, and
plugging that into another, is a valid procedure, though.
To be really sure, the old 4.2.7 sources would have to be
loaded, and XBoard would have to be configured and installed
from source.

If old XBoards, which previously worked, now show this pathological
behavior, it would be a strong indication that the problem lies outside
XBoard, and hence cannot be fixed from within it. If ancient versions
do not have this problem, though, someone experiencing the problem
could identify the earliest version that suffered from it, and the change
that apparently triggers this could inspire a work-around.

But as I don't have this problem at all, (I alsodon't have Ubuntu 11.04),
that approach is not open to me, and nothing can or will be done
until someone that does have the problem would be willing to help
us debug it (which could be a tedious process).