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. --- emacs-31.1/lisp/loadup.el.orig 2026-07-07 14:37:38.000000000 +0200 +++ emacs-31.1/lisp/loadup.el 2026-08-24 15:41:08.501451517 +0200 @@ -601,7 +601,8 @@ (if (eq system-type 'ms-dos) "b-emacs.pdmp" "bootstrap-emacs.pdmp")) - (t (error "Unrecognized dump mode %s" dump-mode))))) + (t (error "Unrecognized dump mode %s" dump-mode)))) + (exec-path nil)) (when (and (featurep 'native-compile) (equal dump-mode "pdump")) ;; Don't enable this before bootstrap is completed, as the