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From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: recipe for target 'src' failed
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 13:33:49 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fu0wac1e.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmbkg0x3.fsf@yandex.com> (Colin Baxter's message of "Fri, 6 Jul 2018 10:37:28 +0100")

Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:

> I'm getting a make error on master, with the message:-
>
> make[2]: Entering directory '/home/redknight/git/emacs/lisp'
>   ELC      ../lisp/files.elc
> Directory-local variables error: (invalid-read-syntax #)
>
> In toplevel form:
> files.el:31:1:Error: Symbol’s value as variable is void: =
> Makefile:285: recipe for target '../lisp/files.elc' failed
> make[2]: *** [../lisp/files.elc] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/redknight/git/emacs/lisp'
> Makefile:733: recipe for target '../lisp/files.elc' failed
> make[1]: *** [../lisp/files.elc] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/redknight/git/emacs/src'
> Makefile:418: recipe for target 'src' failed
> make: *** [src] Error 2
>
> I'm on 3.16.0-6-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.56-1+deb8u1 (2018-05-08)
> i686 GNU/Linux.

IIRC, and FWIW, I got a similar error a while ago after creating a
top-level .dir-locals-2.el file.

-- 
Basil



      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-07-06 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-06  9:37 recipe for target 'src' failed Colin Baxter
2018-07-06  9:58 ` Joost Kremers
2018-07-06 10:43   ` Colin Baxter
2018-07-06 10:00 ` Phil Sainty
2018-07-06 10:33 ` Basil L. Contovounesios [this message]

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