compile failure of cvs emacs

[Harry Putnam]

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2002-08-28 on astest
configured using `configure  --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu 
--target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr 
--exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc 
--datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib 
--libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com 
--mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gcc --with-pop 
--with-sound'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

My setup is Redhat Linux 8.

Attempting to build todays cvs emacs:
First ran ./configure.. with no errors

make bootstrap ends like this:
[...]
  Compiling /usr/local/src/cvs/emacs/lisp/subr.el
  Wrote /usr/local/src/cvs/emacs/lisp/subr.elc
  Compiling /usr/local/src/cvs/emacs/lisp/progmodes/cc-mode.el
  >>Error occurred processing 
/usr/local/src/cvs/emacs/lisp/progmodes/cc-mode.el: Symbol's function 
definition is void ((char-table-p))
  make[1]: *** [compile] Error 1
  make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/cvs/emacs/lisp'
  make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2

Trying make install shows this:
[...]
  cd ../lwlib/; make -w CC='gcc' CFLAGS='-g -O2' MAKE='make' 
"C_SWITCH_X_SITE=-I/usr/X11R6/include" "C_SWITCH_X_MACHINE=" 
"C_SWITCH_X_SYSTEM=" "C_SWITCH_SITE=" "C_SWITCH_MACHINE=" 
"C_SWITCH_SYSTEM=-D_BSD_SOURCE"
  make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/cvs/emacs/lwlib'
  make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
  make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/cvs/emacs/lwlib'
  make[1]: *** No rule to make target 
`/usr/local/src/cvs/emacs/src/../lisp/abbrev.elc', needed by `../etc/DOC'.  
Stop.
  make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/cvs/emacs/src'
  make: *** [src] Error 2