bug#35069: runtest takes too long on get_local_hostname

On Apr 01 2019, Tom de Vries <[email protected]> wrote:

> Usually the testsuite runs in 12 seconds, but sometimes it takes more
> than a minute (I managed to reproduce the same problem by running a
> single gcc testsuite test-case).
>
> I tracked this down to tcl info hostname taking a long time, when:
> - having a vpn session active, and
> - having no network connection

Tcl calls gethostbyname on your hostname, so you should make sure that
it is resolvable (by adding it to /etc/hosts, for example, or installing
nss-myhostname).  That's probably a good idea anyway, since there may be
other programs trying to do that too.

Andreas.

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