> > And you are sure you are invoking the src/emacs binary produced by > that build? > > I'm sorry to ask these obvious questions: it's just that I cannot > understand how the fix could possibly NOT work for you. > > The version should be 27.1.50, not 27.1. Could it be that you are > running the original 27.1 binary, not the one built in the src/ > directory of the snapshot you unpacked? Can you describe the steps > you used to build Emacs after downloading the snapshot tarball? > Please, don't be sorry, I am new to this so I'm probably doing something wrong... I've uninstalled my current emacs with pacman -Rns Then I downloaded the tarball, unpacked it, used the PKGBUILD from emacs version 27.1, I ran makepkg, and then I've used "pacman -U emacs-27..." to install it.