GNU bug report logs - #32352
build sometimes fails with "Directory-local variables error: (invalid-read-syntax #)"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: markusffm <at> fn.de

Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2018 05:52:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka <at> jpl.org>
Cc: 32352 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, markusffm <at> fn.de
Subject: bug#32352: 27.0.50; build error
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 09:50:06 +0300

> Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 15:07:00 +0900
> From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka <at> jpl.org>
> Cc: 32352 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On Fri, 03 Aug 2018 07:48:07 +0200, Markus FFM wrote:
> > build emacs from sources.
> > error messages:
> [...]
> > Directory-local variables error: (invalid-read-syntax #)
> > Error: (void-variable =)
> 
> This sometimes happens to me, too :).  Try `make bootstrap'.

No need to bootstrap: just rename .dir-locals.el and re-run "make",
then rename the file back.

Would someone please look into this annoying problem?  It seems to
happen every time files.el and/or dired.el is changed.
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