Re: recipe for target 'src' failed

[Joost Kremers]

On Fri, Jul 06 2018, Colin Baxter wrote:
> I'm getting a make error on master, with the message:-
>
> make[2]: Entering directory '/home/redknight/git/emacs/lisp'
>   ELC      ../lisp/files.elc
> Directory-local variables error: (invalid-read-syntax #)
>
> In toplevel form:
> files.el:31:1:Error: Symbol’s value as variable is void: =
> Makefile:285: recipe for target '../lisp/files.elc' failed
> make[2]: *** [../lisp/files.elc] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/redknight/git/emacs/lisp'
> Makefile:733: recipe for target '../lisp/files.elc' failed
> make[1]: *** [../lisp/files.elc] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/redknight/git/emacs/src'
> Makefile:418: recipe for target 'src' failed
> make: *** [src] Error 2

I had the same thing, but it went away after I did a `make 
maintainer-clean'. `make distclean' didn't help, IIRC.

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