On 2024-01-20 19:38, Po Lu wrote:
> the problem affects the boot-time module rather than
> readutmp, which Emacs doesn't import.  And in the words of Bruno, a
> functional utmp(x) might appear in Android someday, which binaries
> compiled today should take advantage of wherever available.

Oh, I see I was barking up the wrong tree.  How about the attached patch 
instead? Again, it's not installed into Gnulib and is not tested on Android.