Re: font-lock issue with makefiles

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 20:51:51 -0600
> From: "Pete Lee" <address@hidden>
> 
> When I open a makefile I get error in the minibuffer with latest cvs.
> I started emacs with -Q so it's not my .emacs or site-file.
> 
> Here's what was in the *messages*
> 
> Fontifying makefile... (regexps........)
> File mode specification error: (error "No match 2 in highlight (2
> font-lock-variable-name-face)")
> font-lock-fontify-keywords-region: No match 2 in highlight (2
> font-lock-variable-name-face)

I cannot reproduce this, neither with the 2006-03-25 build, nor with
today's CVS.

Does this happen with _any_ Makefile, or just with some?  I tried the
top-level Makefile.in from the CVS---can you try that and see if it
fails with the same error message?  It doesn't fail for me.