I also experienced this bug, although the sympoms are slightly different: <adam@salsa:ilisp> pwd /usr/share/emacs25/site-lisp/ilisp
<adam@salsa:ilisp> cat path.el (setq load-path (cons "." load-path) byte-compile-warnings nil) (load "ilisp-mak.el") <adam@salsa:ilisp> sudo emacs25 -q -batch -l path.el Loading /usr/share/emacs25/site-lisp/ilisp/ilisp-mak.el (source)... ILISP Compilation: starting. Loading /usr/share/emacs25/site-lisp/ilisp/ilcompat.el (source)... Loading /usr/share/emacs25/site-lisp/ilisp/ilfsf25.el (source)... ;;; Emacs Version fsf-25 ILISP Compilation: unrecognized Emacs version fsf-25 -- ...Adam Di Carlo...<a...@onshored.com>.......<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>