Hi Guix, For me, emacs-next does not build deterministically. Looking at the diffoscope output,, it looks like a lot of the difference is timestamps. However, some, but not all of the .elc files differ, as well as emacs.pdmp. I believe that emacs.pdmp is created by the new portable dumper. I've tried updating to the latest emacs snapshot, 27.0.91, but that still had the problem. The output from the following is attatched: $ diffoscope \ /gnu/store/g99agydlksb1xa4zjk4nx3fshpfskq0n-emacs-next-27.0.91-0.c36c5a3-check \ /gnu/store/g99agydlksb1xa4zjk4nx3fshpfskq0n-emacs-next-27.0.91-0.c36c5a3 Best, Jack