build went OK until ELC ../lisp/files.elc ELC ../lisp/subr.elc make[3]: Entering directory '/home/jpff/GNU/emacs/admin/grammars' make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'all'. make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/jpff/GNU/emacs/admin/grammars' make[3]: Entering directory '/home/jpff/GNU/emacs/leim' make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'all'. make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/jpff/GNU/emacs/leim' Directories for loaddefs: . ./calc ./calendar ./cedet ./cedet/ede ./cedet/semantic ./cedet/semantic/analyze ./cedet/semantic/bovine ./cedet/semantic/decorate ./cedet/semantic/symref ./cedet/semantic/wisent ./cedet/srecode ./emacs-lisp ./emacs-parallel ./emulation ./erc ./eshell ./gnus ./image ./international ./language ./leim ./leim/ja-dic ./leim/quail ./mail ./mh-e ./net ./nxml ./org ./play ./progmodes ./textmodes ./url ./vc GEN loaddefs.el Directory-local variables error: (invalid-read-syntax #)Directory-local variables error: (invalid-read-syntax #) In toplevel form: files.el:31:1:Error: Symbol’s value as variable is void: = In toplevel form: subr.el:32:45:Error: Symbol’s value as variable is void: = make[2]: *** [Makefile:285: ../lisp/files.elc] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/jpff/GNU/emacs/lisp' make[1]: *** [Makefile:732: ../lisp/files.elc] Error 2 make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[2]: *** [Makefile:285: ../lisp/subr.elc] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/jpff/GNU/emacs/lisp' make[1]: *** [Makefile:732: ../lisp/subr.elc] Error 2 Directory-local variables error: (invalid-read-syntax #) Error: (void-variable =) Directory-local variables error: (invalid-read-syntax #) Directory-local variables error: (void-variable =) Directory-local variables error: (invalid-read-syntax #) make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/jpff/GNU/emacs/lisp' make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/jpff/GNU/emacs/src' make: *** [Makefile:418: src] Error 2 This is from a pull minutes go -- not this emacs obviously In GNU Emacs 25.3.1 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.30) of 2018-05-15 built on build36 Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11906000 System Description: openSUSE Leap 15.0 Configured using: 'configure --with-pop --without-hesiod --with-kerberos --with-kerberos5 --with-xim --with-wide-int --with-file-notification=inotify --with-modules --enable-autodepend --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --enable-locallisppath=/usr/share/emacs/25.3/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp --with-x --with-sound --with-xpm --with-jpeg --with-tiff --with-gif --with-png --with-rsvg --with-dbus --with-xft --without-gpm --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xwidgets --with-toolkit-scroll-bars --x-includes=/usr/include --x-libraries=/usr/lib64 --with-libotf --with-m17n-flt --build=x86_64-suse-linux 'CFLAGS=-fmessage-length=0 -grecord-gcc-switches -O2 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector-strong -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -g -D_GNU_SOURCE -DGDK_DISABLE_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS -DGLIB_DISABLE_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS -pipe -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-unused-variable -Wno-unused-label -Wno-unprototyped-calls -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -fno-PIE -DSYSTEM_PURESIZE_EXTRA=55000 -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=10000 ' LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O2' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS NOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 MODULES XWIDGETS Important settings: value of $LC_CTYPE: en_US.UTF-8 value of $LC_NUMERIC: POSIX value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=local locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: auto-image-file-mode: t display-time-mode: t show-paren-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t buffer-read-only: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent messages: Error setting my-tab-face: (invalid-function (((class color)) (:background lemon chiffon))) Error setting my-trailing-space-face: (invalid-function (((class color)) (:background Gold))) Preparing diary...done For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. 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