Re: Call to `openssl` causes Emacs to freeze

[Alexis]

tomas@tuxteam.de writes:

> 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.

Thanks for the suggestion! i've just recompiled after having 
installed the `gnutls-dev` package - will see how that goes. :-)


Alexis.