m68k "Invalid character:" build failure look familiar to anyone?

[Rob Browning]

I'm trying to track down a 21.3 build failure that only appears on the
m68k architecture when trying to build the Debian package (all the
other (Debian) architectures build ok). I was hoping to see if this
looked familiar to anyone before I try to track it down the hard way.
I'd be happy to gather/provide more information if it would be
helpful.

During a full boostrap build, the build fails as follows:

for el in /home/rlb/tmp/emacs21-21.3+1/lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-opt.el 
/home/rlb/tmp/emacs21-21.3+1/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el 
/home/rlb/tmp/emacs21-21.3+1/lisp/subr.el 
/home/rlb/tmp/emacs21-21.3+1/lisp/progmodes/cc-mode.el 
/home/rlb/tmp/emacs21-21.3+1/lisp/progmodes/cc-vars.el $els; do \
  echo Compiling $el; \
  EMACSLOADPATH=/home/rlb/tmp/emacs21-21.3+1/lisp ../src/bootstrap-emacs -batch 
--no-site-file --multibyte -f batch-byte-compile $el || exit 1; \
done
Compiling /home/rlb/tmp/emacs21-21.3+1/lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-opt.el
  !! error (("Invalid character: 037000000000, -134217728, 0xf8000000"))
  !! error (("Invalid character: 037600000000, -33554432, 0xfe000000"))
  !! error (("Invalid character: 037300000000, -83886080, 0xfb000000"))
  !! error (("Invalid character: 037500000000, -50331648, 0xfd000000"))
  !! error (("Invalid character: 037200000000, -100663296, 0xfa000000"))
  !! error (("Invalid character: 037100000000, -117440512, 0xf9000000"))
While compiling toplevel forms in file 
/home/rlb/tmp/emacs21-21.3+1/lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-opt.el:
  !! error (("Invalid character: 037600000000, -33554432, 0xfe000000"))
  !! error (("Invalid character: 037500000000, -50331648, 0xfd000000"))
  !! error (("Invalid character: 037200000000, -100663296, 0xfa000000"))
  !! error (("Invalid character: 037500000000, -50331648, 0xfd000000"))
  !! error (("Invalid character: 037100000000, -117440512, 0xf9000000"))
  !! error (("Invalid character: 037600000011, -33554423, 0xfe000009"))
  !! error (("Invalid character: 037600000000, -33554432, 0xfe000000"))
Done
make[3]: *** [compile-files] Error 1

  The full bug is reported here:
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=207580
  and the various architecture build statuses are reported here:
    http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=&pkg=emacs21

Thanks
-- 
Rob Browning
rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu
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