Sorry, I did that again.. By "does not work", I mean that on emacs 27.x, make vcheck gets stuck at the package installation step (where the packages should get installed to package-user-dir). So I had to kill make vcheck as nothing was happening:
> make vcheck
Emacs binary used: emacs
Loading /home/kmodi/stow/pub_dotfiles/emacs/dot-emacs.d/misc/eless/build/setup-eless.el (source)...
Emacs is now refreshing its package database...
Importing package-keyring.gpg...
Importing package-keyring.gpg...done
Contacting host:
orgmode.org:443Contacting host:
orgmode.org:443Contacting host:
melpa.org:443Contacting host:
melpa.org:443Contacting host:
elpa.gnu.org:443Package refresh done
Installing ‘org-plus-contrib’ ..
Setting ‘package-selected-packages’ temporarily since "emacs -q" would overwrite customizations
Setting ‘package-selected-packages’ temporarily since "emacs -q" would overwrite customizations
Contacting host:
orgmode.org:443^Cmake: *** [Makefile:83: vcheck] Error 2