fontification broken in CVS (perl/auctex)

[Dr. Thomas Baumann]

fontification/syntax highlighting is broken in current CVS emacs
 eg.

 Loading perl-mode...done
 Font-Lock mode enabled
 Loading font-lock...done
 Loading jit-lock...done
 Error during redisplay: (invalid-function (^\(=\)\sw (1 < b)))

 AUCTeX
 Loading tex-mode...
 Loading regexp-opt...done
 Loading tex-mode...done
 Error during redisplay: (invalid-function (^\\begin *{\(verbatim\*?\)}.*\(
 \) 2 |))
 Error during redisplay: (invalid-function (^\\begin *{\(verbatim\*?\)}.*\(
 \) 2 |))

 other modes (lisp/sql) may work.

 Thanks
 Thomas



In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2004-06-25 on mafu
configured using `configure '--prefix=/usr' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' 
'--infodir=/usr/share/info''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: POSIX
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: C
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Emacs-Lisp

Minor modes in effect:
  auto-compression-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
C-x C-f . e m a <return> M-x r e p o r t - <backspace> 
<return>

Recent messages:
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