On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 12:47:07PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > On my older laptop I don't have pkgsrc though and I install binary > packages, thus it appears that all [x]emacs binary packages are either > compiled wrongly or broken in some other regards.
Emacsen do a strange "unexec" during their build - basically they init the full lisp machine and then dump core, turn the core into a new executable and name that emacs. This step seems to be "non portable", in the sense that it is only guaranteed to work on the local machine. I call this a design bug in the unexec process. Martin
