bug#31857: 25.3; failure to build from master

[John]

build went OK until

  ELC      ../lisp/files.elc
  ELC      ../lisp/subr.elc
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/jpff/GNU/emacs/admin/grammars'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/jpff/GNU/emacs/admin/grammars'
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/jpff/GNU/emacs/leim'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/jpff/GNU/emacs/leim'
Directories for loaddefs: . ./calc ./calendar ./cedet ./cedet/ede 
./cedet/semantic ./cedet/semantic/analyze ./cedet/semantic/bovine 
./cedet/semantic/decorate ./cedet/semantic/symref ./cedet/semantic/wisent 
./cedet/srecode ./emacs-lisp ./emacs-parallel ./emulation ./erc ./eshell ./gnus 
./image ./international ./language ./leim ./leim/ja-dic ./leim/quail ./mail 
./mh-e ./net ./nxml ./org ./play ./progmodes ./textmodes ./url ./vc
  GEN      loaddefs.el
Directory-local variables error: (invalid-read-syntax #)Directory-local 
variables error: (invalid-read-syntax #)


In toplevel form:
files.el:31:1:Error: Symbol’s value as variable is void: =

In toplevel form:
subr.el:32:45:Error: Symbol’s value as variable is void: =
make[2]: *** [Makefile:285: ../lisp/files.elc] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/jpff/GNU/emacs/lisp'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:732: ../lisp/files.elc] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: *** [Makefile:285: ../lisp/subr.elc] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/jpff/GNU/emacs/lisp'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:732: ../lisp/subr.elc] Error 2
Directory-local variables error: (invalid-read-syntax #)
Error: (void-variable =)
Directory-local variables error: (invalid-read-syntax #)
Directory-local variables error: (void-variable =)
Directory-local variables error: (invalid-read-syntax #)
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/jpff/GNU/emacs/lisp'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/jpff/GNU/emacs/src'
make: *** [Makefile:418: src] Error 2


This is from a pull minutes go -- not this emacs obviously




In GNU Emacs 25.3.1 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.30)
 of 2018-05-15 built on build36
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11906000
System Description:     openSUSE Leap 15.0

Configured using:
 'configure --with-pop --without-hesiod --with-kerberos
 --with-kerberos5 --with-xim --with-wide-int
 --with-file-notification=inotify --with-modules --enable-autodepend
 --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
 --datadir=/usr/share --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/var/lib
 --libexecdir=/usr/lib
 
--enable-locallisppath=/usr/share/emacs/25.3/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
 --with-x --with-sound --with-xpm --with-jpeg --with-tiff --with-gif
 --with-png --with-rsvg --with-dbus --with-xft --without-gpm
 --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xwidgets --with-toolkit-scroll-bars
 --x-includes=/usr/include --x-libraries=/usr/lib64 --with-libotf
 --with-m17n-flt --build=x86_64-suse-linux 'CFLAGS=-fmessage-length=0
 -grecord-gcc-switches -O2 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
 -fstack-protector-strong -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables
 -fstack-clash-protection -g -D_GNU_SOURCE
 -DGDK_DISABLE_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS
 -DGLIB_DISABLE_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS -pipe -Wno-pointer-sign
 -Wno-unused-variable -Wno-unused-label -Wno-unprototyped-calls
 -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -fno-PIE -DSYSTEM_PURESIZE_EXTRA=55000
 -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=10000 ' LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O2'

Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS
NOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 MODULES XWIDGETS

Important settings:
  value of $LC_CTYPE: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: POSIX
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=local
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  auto-image-file-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  global-eldoc-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  buffer-read-only: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent messages:
Error setting my-tab-face: (invalid-function (((class color)) (:background 
lemon chiffon)))
Error setting my-trailing-space-face: (invalid-function (((class color)) 
(:background Gold)))
Preparing diary...done
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Local Ispell dictionary set to british
Loading mail-extr...done
Starting new Ispell process /usr/bin/ispell with british dictionary...
Parsing /home/jpff/.mailrc... done
Making completion list...
Loading dired-add...done

Load-path shadows:
/home/jpff/GNU/local-lisp/rmime hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/rmime
/home/jpff/GNU/local-lisp/lilypond-words hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/lilypond-words
/home/jpff/GNU/local-lisp/lilypond-what-beat hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/lilypond-what-beat
/home/jpff/GNU/local-lisp/lilypond-song hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/lilypond-song
/home/jpff/GNU/local-lisp/lilypond-mode hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/lilypond-mode
/home/jpff/GNU/local-lisp/lilypond-init hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/lilypond-init
/home/jpff/GNU/local-lisp/lilypond-indent hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/lilypond-indent
/home/jpff/GNU/local-lisp/lilypond-font-lock hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/lilypond-font-lock
/home/jpff/GNU/local-lisp/gnuplot hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gnuplot
/home/jpff/GNU/local-lisp/gnuplot-gui hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gnuplot-gui
/home/jpff/GNU/local-lisp/po-mode hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/po-mode
/home/jpff/GNU/local-lisp/po-compat hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/po-compat
/home/jpff/GNU/local-lisp/site-start hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/xslide/suse-start-xslide hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/suse-start-xslide
/home/jpff/GNU/local-lisp/make-regexp hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/psgml/make-regexp
/home/jpff/GNU/local-lisp/lilypond-init hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/lilypond-init

Features:
(shadow emacsbug message dired format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec
password-cache epg epg-config gnus-util mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode
mail-parse rfc2231 gmm-utils mailheader mailabbrev flyspell mailalias
mailcrypt mail-extr comint ansi-color ring sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045
ietf-drums mm-util help-fns help-mode cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib
mail-prsvr mail-utils cal-julian image-file crypt crypt++
crypt+pgp-pub view cal-china cal-bahai cal-islam cal-hebrew lunar
solar cal-dst appt diary-lib diary-loaddefs holidays hol-loaddefs
cal-menu calendar cal-loaddefs time paren sgml-mode psgml easymenu
ispell time-date mule-util delsel lpr tooltip eldoc electric uniquify
ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win term/common-win x-dnd
tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment
elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow
timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu
font-core frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang
vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932
hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic
chinese charscript case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple
abbrev minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face
macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env
code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote
dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting
font-render-setting xwidget-internal move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x
multi-tty make-network-process emacs)

Memory information:
((conses 16 120618 5905)
 (symbols 48 23212 0)
 (miscs 40 235 292)
 (strings 32 24617 5329)
 (string-bytes 1 761281)
 (vectors 16 16259)
 (vector-slots 8 511103 6123)
 (floats 8 717 742)
 (intervals 56 427 0)
 (buffers 976 20))

==John ffitch