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+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
+@@ -64,6 +64,11 @@
+ 			    (expand-file-name "textmodes" dir)
+ 			    (expand-file-name "vc" dir)))))
+ 
++;; Reset 'exec-path' so we don't capture the build-time $PATH in the
++;; 'emacs' executable.
++(setq-default exec-path nil)
++(setq exec-path nil)
++
+ (if (eq t purify-flag)
+     ;; Hash consing saved around 11% of pure space in my tests.
+     (setq purify-flag (make-hash-table :test 'equal :size 70000)))