Re: m68k "Invalid character:" build failure look familiar to anyone?

[Stefan Monnier]

> During a full boostrap build, the build fails as follows:

> for el in /home/rlb/tmp/emacs21-21.3+1/lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-opt.el 
> /home/rlb/tmp/emacs21-21.3+1/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el 
> /home/rlb/tmp/emacs21-21.3+1/lisp/subr.el 
> /home/rlb/tmp/emacs21-21.3+1/lisp/progmodes/cc-mode.el 
> /home/rlb/tmp/emacs21-21.3+1/lisp/progmodes/cc-vars.el $els; do \
>   echo Compiling $el; \
>   EMACSLOADPATH=/home/rlb/tmp/emacs21-21.3+1/lisp ../src/bootstrap-emacs 
> -batch --no-site-file --multibyte -f batch-byte-compile $el || exit 1; \
> done
> Compiling /home/rlb/tmp/emacs21-21.3+1/lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-opt.el
>   !! error (("Invalid character: 037000000000, -134217728, 0xf8000000"))
>   !! error (("Invalid character: 037600000000, -33554432, 0xfe000000"))
>   !! error (("Invalid character: 037300000000, -83886080, 0xfb000000"))
>   !! error (("Invalid character: 037500000000, -50331648, 0xfd000000"))
>   !! error (("Invalid character: 037200000000, -100663296, 0xfa000000"))
>   !! error (("Invalid character: 037100000000, -117440512, 0xf9000000"))
> While compiling toplevel forms in file 
> /home/rlb/tmp/emacs21-21.3+1/lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-opt.el:
>   !! error (("Invalid character: 037600000000, -33554432, 0xfe000000"))
>   !! error (("Invalid character: 037500000000, -50331648, 0xfd000000"))
>   !! error (("Invalid character: 037200000000, -100663296, 0xfa000000"))
>   !! error (("Invalid character: 037500000000, -50331648, 0xfd000000"))
>   !! error (("Invalid character: 037100000000, -117440512, 0xf9000000"))
>   !! error (("Invalid character: 037600000011, -33554423, 0xfe000009"))
>   !! error (("Invalid character: 037600000000, -33554432, 0xfe000000"))
> Done
> make[3]: *** [compile-files] Error 1

Could you use ../src/bootstrap-emacs interactively and byte-compile the
file from there, while setting both debug-on-error and byte-compile-debug
to a non-nil value ?
This should give you a lisp backtrace,


        Stefan