trouble building org-mode, how to debug emacs -batch

[Kevin Buchs <kevin.buchs.junk@gmail.com>]

I am stuck, so I would appreciate some pointers on debugging. I've got
the make transcript below and then my further tests on emacs -batch,
where I always get a return message "End of file during parsing".  How
can I debug this?

(For completeness I included the portion of my local.mk which changed
from the default further below -- but I've proved to myself that this
isn't the problem - it is emacs that is unhappy).

teebo$ make compile
make -C doc clean;  make -C lisp clean;
make[1]: Entering directory `/users/buchs/src/org-mode/doc'
rm -f org *.pdf *.html *_letter.tex org-version.inc \
              *.aux *.cp *.cps *.dvi *.fn *.fns *.ky *.kys *.pg *.pgs \
              *.toc *.tp *.tps *.vr *.vrs *.log *.html *.ps
make[1]: Leaving directory `/users/buchs/src/org-mode/doc'
make[1]: Entering directory `/users/buchs/src/org-mode/lisp'
rm -f org-version.el org-loaddefs.el org-version.elc org-loaddefs.elc
org-install.elc
rm -f *.elc
make[1]: Leaving directory `/users/buchs/src/org-mode/lisp'
make -C lisp compile
make[1]: Entering directory `/users/buchs/src/org-mode/lisp'
rm -f org-version.el org-loaddefs.el org-version.elc org-loaddefs.elc
org-install.elc
org-version: 7.9.2 (release_7.9.2-570-gc149e04a)
End of file during parsing
make[1]: *** [org-version.el] Error 255
make[1]: Leaving directory `/users/buchs/src/org-mode/lisp'
make: *** [compile] Error 2


teebo$ emacs -batch --eval '(add-to-list '"'"'load-path ".")'
End of file during parsing

teebo$ emacs -batch --eval '(message "hello world")'
End of file during parsing

teebo$ emacs -batch --eval '(+ 4 5)'
End of file during parsing

teebo$ cat local.mk
##-8<-------------------------------------------------------------------
##  CHECK AND ADAPT THE FOLLOWING DEFINITIONS
##----------------------------------------------------------------------

# Name of your emacs binary
EMACS   = emacs

# Where local software is found
prefix  = /users/buchs

# Where local lisp files go.
lispdir= $(prefix)/lib/emacs/org-mode

# Where local data files go.
datadir = $(prefix)/lib/emacs/org-mode/etc

# Where info files go.
infodir = $(prefix)/lib/emacs/info

#