23.0.50: make bootstrap error

[William Xu]

What does this error mean? (with gcc (GCC) 4.2.2 (Debian 4.2.2-1))

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| Compiling /home/william/repo/cvs/emacs/lisp/./language/china-util.el
| Loading /home/william/repo/cvs/emacs/lisp/international/subst-jis.el 
(source)...
| Loading /home/william/repo/cvs/emacs/lisp/international/subst-ksc.el 
(source)...
| Loading /home/william/repo/cvs/emacs/lisp/international/subst-big5.el 
(source)...
| Loading /home/william/repo/cvs/emacs/lisp/international/subst-gb2312.el 
(source)...
| Wrote /home/william/repo/cvs/emacs/lisp/language/china-util.elc
| Compiling /home/william/repo/cvs/emacs/lisp/./language/chinese.el
| Wrong type argument: listp, [t 255 255 255 255 255 255 255 255 255 ...]
| make[2]: *** [compile] error 1
| make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/william/repo/cvs/emacs-build/lisp'
| make[1]: *** [bootstrap-build] error 2
| make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/william/repo/cvs/emacs-build'
| make: *** [bootstrap] error 2
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