bug#15563: 24.3.50; Emacs does not compile: Symbol's value as variable is void: byte-compile--use-old-handlers

[Glenn Morris]

Titus von der Malsburg wrote:

> 1.) I retrieved the latest version from git.
> 2.) ./configure --prefix=/home/malsburg/usr/ --with-x-toolkit=yes 
> --with-sound=no --without-gpm --without-dbus --without-gconf 
> --without-gsettings --without-selinux --with-file-notification=yes --with-x
> 3.) make
[...]
> In byte-optimize-form-code-walker:
> emacs-lisp/byte-opt.el:519:28:Warning: reference to free variable
>     `byte-compile--use-old-handlers'
> emacs-lisp/byte-opt.el:860:1:Error: Symbol's value as variable is void: 
> byte-compile--use-old-handlers

Works fine for me, and for
http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/emacs-trunk as well.

I imagine it will work fine for you too if you

make bootstrap

rather than just make.