Support Requests item #869, was opened at 2007-09-22 20:30 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=494&aid=869&group_id=106 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Theo Hopman (thopman) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: pdflatex slow to start on Cygwin Initial Comment: I use Cygwin on WinXP pro, with teTex 3.0 installed. I recently built pdftex 1.40 (which went well), manually replaced the old binaries of pdftex, and rebuilt the various formats using fmtutil. Now, however, pdflatex starts up only after a considerable delay (anywhere from a couple of seconds up to half a minute). While pdflatex sits there looking like its doing nothing, it also responds slowly to interrupt (^C) signals. Why might this be? `pdflatex --version`, by contrast, is instantaneous, so the issue is likely something to do with searching or loading formats. THeo ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=494&aid=869&group_id=106