On 4/17/2022 2:49 AM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
>> branch: master
>> commit bbb92dde01ec3fc46b24247fb2d181a21dbcc40a
>> Author: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
>> Commit: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>>
>>      Add unit tests and documentation for Eshell pattern-based globs
> 
> Something in this patch series leads to the following "make check"
> failure (on Debian):
> 
> Invalid read syntax: "#<"
[snip]
> It does not fail with "make em-pred-tests".

Does the attached patch fix it? I think the issue was that 
`eshell-partial-let-func' got the original function value too early, so 
during macro-expansion, it would insert something like `#<subr 
file-attributes>', which the parser didn't like. I've moved this bit 
later and it works for me.