Emacs Build Fails On Ubuntu 10.x

[T. V. Raman]

Admittedly an old ubuntu version, but the build fails --
and surprizingly in a macroexp error.

See lines below from  a clean make bootstrap after a make
distclean.

make[2]: Entering directory 
`/data/v3/raman/sourceforge/savannah-emacs/emacs/leim'
EMACSLOADPATH= '../src/bootstrap-emacs' -batch --no-site-file --no-site-lisp -l 
titdic-cnv -f batch-miscdic-convert -dir ./../lisp/leim/quail 
MISC-DIC/cangjie-table.b5
Converting cangjie-table.b5 to tsang-b5.el...
Eager macro-expansion failure: (error "Lisp nesting exceeds 
`max-lisp-eval-depth'")
Loading macroexp.elc...
Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
make[2]: *** [../lisp/leim/quail/tsang-b5.el] Error 255
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/data/v3/raman/sourceforge/savannah-emacs/emacs/leim'
make[1]: *** [../lisp/leim/leim-list.el] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/data/v3/raman/sourceforge/savannah-emacs/emacs/src'
make: *** [src] Error 2
12:07:55 labrador emacs $