> I tried to build emacs-21.2 and it got
> 
> LC_ALL=C ./temacs -batch -l loadup dump
> [...blah...]
> Loading float-sup...
> Illegal instruction - core dumped
> 
> Do I need to use soft-float?
> 
You need to make sure that you have not removed the NO_INSN_EMULATE option
from your config file when you compiled the kernel.

If you haven't, then it's probably a bug somewhere.

-- Ragge