Simple way to build path-relocatable emacs on GNU/Linux?

[Peter Seibel]

I'm trying to build a binary distribution of Emacs for Linux that
someone can drop in their home directory and have it just work. Is
there some simple way to do this? If not, what's the best place to
look to understand how the load-path and other things that (seemingly)
get hardwired to values based on the --prefix argument to configure
get set and might be modified both at build time and at runtime?

-Peter

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Peter Seibel                                     address@hidden

         Lisp is the red pill. -- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp