Re: Call to `openssl` causes Emacs to freeze

[tomas]

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On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 12:39:46PM +1000, Alexis wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Context: manually-compiled Emacs 24.5 on Debian Jessie x86_64.
> 
> For a while i'd been facing the problem that, when i opened an HTML
> email (erk) in mu4e, Emacs would freeze; my only recourse was to
> terminate the Emacs process.
> 
> Today i worked out that a call to `openssl` is the source of the
> problem: installing the `gnutls-bin` package and modifying the value
> of the variable `tls-program` to only call `gnutls-cli` fixed the
> issue.

Only indirectly related, but I had similar experiences accessing
https things. Gnutls-cli failed in my case, my best bet was compiled-in
TLS support. So if you are compiling your Emacs yourself anyway, I'd
strongly recommend using that: resorting to an external program
(openssl or gnutls-bin) makes some things difficult for the application.

Regards
- -- tomás
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