Emacs 27.1 - Invalid function: make-local-variable

Thu Oct 29 02:59:21 GMT 2020

On Wed, Oct 28, 2020, at 7:09 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>> I won't have time to check this until tomorrow, but I'm guessing that the 
> following patch will fix the problem:
>> --- a/src/emacs.c
> +++ b/src/emacs.c
> @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ #define MAIN_PROGRAM
> We mark being in the exec'd process by a daemon name argument of
> form "--daemon=\nFD0,FD1\nNAME" where FD are the pipe file descriptors,
> NAME is the original daemon name, if any. */
> -#if defined NS_IMPL_COCOA || (defined HAVE_NTGUI && defined CYGWIN)
> +#if defined NS_IMPL_COCOA || defined CYGWIN
> # define DAEMON_MUST_EXEC
> #endif
>> My guess is based mostly on the fact that the problem doesn't occur in 
> emacs-w32 
> (i.e., when HAVE_NTGUI is defined). Please give this a try if you have 
> a chance 
> before I get to it.

Thank you. That worked for me.