Thanks!
Looks like all directories under /usr/local/share/emacs/24.2.92/lisp were missing +x flag.

find . -type d -exec sudo chmod go+x {} \;

worked around the issue.

I'm guessing it has to be something related to these sources since I am able to make/install latest emacs-24.2.tar.gz release tarball just the same way I build this one.

2013/1/15 Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at>

On Tue, Jan 15 2013, Wolfgang Jenkner wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 15 2013, Alejandro Benitez wrote:
>
>> alejandro@alejandro-desktop:~$ strace -e file emacs -Q 2>&1 | grep simple
>> stat("/usr/local/share/emacs/24.2.92/lisp/simple.elc", 0x7fff361ee320) = -1
>> EACCES (Permission denied)
>
> So you have wrong permissions on the file or its parent directory?
>
> ls -l /usr/local/share/emacs/24.2.92/lisp/simple.elc
> ls -ld /usr/local/share/emacs/24.2.92/lisp

You might have to do this as root...

Wolfgang