bug#689: Byte-compiler failures building from CVS on Windows XP

[Francis Litterio]

When building Emacs from CVS on Windows XP SP2 using Visual Studio 6.0,
I'm seeing strange failures when byte-compiling the Elisp files.  Here
are a couple of examples:

        c:\franl\cvs\emacs\lisp>"c:\franl\cvs\emacs\lisp/../bin/emacs.exe" 
-batch --no-init-file --no-site-file --multibyte -l loaddefs -f 
batch-byte-compile-if-not-done gnus/legacy-gnus-agent.el 

        In toplevel form:
        gnus/legacy-gnus-agent.el:28:1:Error: Symbol's value as variable is 
void: ��d

        c:\franl\cvs\emacs\lisp>"c:\franl\cvs\emacs\lisp/../bin/emacs.exe" 
-batch --no-init-file --no-site-file --multibyte -l loaddefs -f 
batch-byte-compile-if-not-done gnus/nneething.el 

        In toplevel form:
        gnus/nneething.el:32:1:Error: Symbol's value as variable is void: 
����������y

Is anyone else seeing this?  This didn't happen when I built from CVS a
few months ago.
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Fran