temacs dump problem (includes workaround)

[jochen]

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2002-08-24 on barleywine
configured using `configure  --disable-largefile'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I have reported the problem to gnu.emacs.bug before, but now I found a
workaround that might help to actually find the bug.

When trying to build emacs-21.2 by a simple ./configure && make the
build emacs crashed when it tries to dump emacs:
,----
| LC_ALL=C ./temacs -batch -l loadup dump
| Loading loadup (source)...
| Using load-path (/tmp/emacs-21.2/lisp)
| Loading byte-run...
| Loading subr...
| Loading version.el (source)...
| Loading widget...
| Loading custom...
| Loading emacs-lisp/backquote...
| Loading map-ynp...
| Loading env...
| Loading cus-start (source)...
| Loading international/mule...
| Loading international/mule-conf.el (source)...
| Loading format...
| Loading bindings...
| Loading simple...
| Loading files...
| Lists of integers (garbage collection statistics) are normal output
| while building Emacs; they do not indicate a problem.
| ((7024 . 6016) (3780 . 0) (485 . 3) 11478 21356 (3 . 0) (16 . 0) (617 . 1714))
| Loading loaddefs.el (source)...
| Maximum buffer size exceeded
| make[1]: *** [emacs] Error 255
| make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/emacs-21.2/src'
| make: *** [src] Error 2
`----

If I 
  ./configure --disable-largefile && make
the build goes well and emacs seems to work fine (so far:)

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