I can implement both suggestions (only one would be needed); they will
be one- or two-line changes which hopefully qualify as "tiny" for
contribution policy purposes.
Years ago I had a few lines of code accepted into the build system:
commit 6c0a9ed1b100c4dfbac327e6405396f1586267eb
Author: Richard Copley <
address@hidden>
Date: Fri Jun 7 11:08:29 2013 +0300
Fix bug #14513 with --enable-locallisppath not working on MS-Windows.
Back then you (Eli) told me my limit was "all but exhausted" IIRC, but
that code has been improved or superseded and only a vestige of it
remains in Emacs.
Sincerely, apologies for the hassle.