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* Installation Changes in Emacs 27.2
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* Installation Changes in Emacs 27.1
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** Emacs now uses GMP, the GNU Multiple Precision library.
By default, if 'configure' does not find a suitable libgmp, it
arranges for the included mini-gmp library to be built and used.
libXft for font support, and that Pango 1.44 has removed support for
bitmapped fonts.
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** Emacs now uses a "portable dumper" instead of unexec.
This improves compatibility with memory allocation on modern systems,
and in particular better supports the Address Space Layout