Do not capture the build-time value of $PATH in the 'emacs' executable since this can noticeably increase the size of the closure of Emacs with things like GCC being referenced. --- a/lisp/loadup.el +++ b/lisp/loadup.el @@ -481,7 +481,8 @@ lost after dumping"))) ((equal dump-mode "dump") "emacs") ((equal dump-mode "bootstrap") "emacs") ((equal dump-mode "pbootstrap") "bootstrap-emacs.pdmp") - (t (error "unrecognized dump mode %s" dump-mode))))) + (t (error "unrecognized dump mode %s" dump-mode)))) + (exec-path nil)) (message "Dumping under the name %s" output) (condition-case () (delete-file output)