The latest Bazaar version of Emacs fails to build APEL [http://www.kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~tomo/elisp/APEL/index.en.html] with the following message: % cvs -z9 -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.m17n.org:/cvs/root checkout apel % cd apel % make emacs -batch -q -no-site-file -l APEL-MK -f compile-apel \ NONE NONE NONE Loading /home/tetsurou/Checkout/cvs.m17n.org/apel/APEL-CFG... Loading `product': old-style backquotes detected! Invalid function: (progn (\, product-def) (put (\, feature) (quote product) (let ((product (product-find-by-name (\, product-name)))) (product-run-checkers product (quote (\, product-version))) (and (\, product-family) (product-add-to-family (\, product-family) (\, product-name))) (product-add-feature product (\, feature)) (if (equal (quote (\, product-version)) (product-version product)) product (vector (\, product-name) (\, product-family) (quote (\, product-version)) (\, product-code-name) nil nil nil (\, product-version-string))))) (\, feature-def)) make: *** [elc] Error 255 Attached patch for Emacs fixes this error. In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i686-pc-cygwin, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2010-06-18 on zeroset configured using `configure '--without-dbus' '--with-x-toolkit=athena'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: C value of $LANG: ja_JP.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: global-semanticdb-minor-mode: t global-semantic-idle-scheduler-mode: t semantic-mode: t global-ede-mode: t display-time-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-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 line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: ESC x r e p o r TAB RET Recent messages: ("emacs") Loading term/xterm...done For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. 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