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diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/emacs/files/avoid-running-host-binaries-for-sanity.patch b/meta-oe/recipes-support/emacs/files/avoid-running-host-binaries-for-sanity.patch
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@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate  [OE-Specific]
+
+Emacs introduced a sanity-check for the build artifacts, where it
+runs the newly built emacs to perform some checks.
+
+This is not going to work for us since we are cross-compiling,
+we need to avoid running target binaries on the host
+
+Signed-off-by: Alejandro Hernandez Samaniego <alejandro@enedino.org>
+
+Index: emacs-29.1/Makefile.in
+===================================================================
+--- emacs-29.1.orig/Makefile.in
++++ emacs-29.1/Makefile.in
+@@ -416,19 +416,10 @@ advice-on-failure:
+ 	@exit ${exit-status}
+ 
+ sanity-check:
+-	@[ -f .no-advice-on-failure ] && exit 0; true
+-	@v=$$(src/emacs${EXEEXT} --batch --eval \
+-	  '(progn (defun f (n) (if (= 0 n) 1 (* n (f (- n 1))))) (princ (f 10)))' \
+-	  2> /dev/null); \
+-	[ "X$$v" = "X3628800" ] && exit 0; \
+-	echo >&2 '***'; \
+-	echo >&2 '*** '"\"make ${make-target}\" succeeded, but Emacs is not functional."; \
+-	echo >&2 '***'; \
+-	cat Makefile | \
+-	  sed -n '/^# ADVICE-ON-FAILURE-BEGIN:${make-target}/,$${p;/^# ADVICE-ON-FAILURE-END:${make-target}/q;};' | \
+-	  sed 's/^# /*** /' | grep -v '^\*\*\* ADVICE-ON-FAILURE-' >&2; \
+-	echo >&2 '***'; \
+-	exit 1
++# The Makefile will try to call the newly built emacs to perform some checks
++# this is not going to work since it was (probably) built for a different architecture.
++# Avoid calling target binaries from the host and simply assume our build artifacts work.
++	exit 0
+ 
+ .PHONY: all ${SUBDIR} blessmail epaths-force epaths-force-w32 epaths-force-ns-self-contained etc-emacsver
+