Hello, Emacs. With a recent master repo (likely also the emacs-30 branch): (i) mkdir ~/cc-mode.hg. (ii) chdir ~/cc-mode.hg. (iii) Copy cc-mode.hg.tar.gz from this bug report to ~/cc-mode.hg. (iv) tar -zxf cc-mode.tar.gz. The CC Mode source files should now be in the current directory. (v) emacs -Q -batch -f batch-byte-compile *.el The CC Mode .elc files should now be present. (vi) emacs -Q. (vii) M-: (push "~/cc-mode.hg" load-path). (viii) M-x load-library RET cc-mode RET. (ix) (After a brief wait) C-x b *Async-native-compile-log* RET. (x) Search the buffer for "#" with C-s or C-r. This will find the error line /home/awk/cc-mode.hg/cc-fonts.el: Error Wrong type argument: listp, #[(form) (`(cdr (backquote-process ,form))) nil] (where "awk" is your user name). The native compiler has thus failed to compile cc-fonts.el, this being something to do with the new interpreted form #[(form) (`(cdr (backquote-process ,form))) nil] being somewhere where a list form is expected. Possibly of interest: (defun (form) (`(cdr (backquote-process ,form))) nil] looks like a failed expansion of backquote (see lisp/emacs-lisp/backquote.el). -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).