Comment 2 for bug 1210956

I have the same issue when installing the latest emacs-snapshot from cassou-emacs PPA in ubuntu 12.04. The postinst script will end up with the error:

install/apel: byte-compiling for emacs-snapshot, logged in /tmp/elc.nXkq00vegmFb
emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/apel emacs-snapshot emacs23 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28, <TSORT> line 15.

I tracked the error and it was from this command:

emacs-snapshot -q -no-site-file -batch -l __myinit.el -f batch-byte-compile alist.el apel-ver.el atype.el broken.el calist.el emu.el file-detect.el filename.el install.el inv-19.el inv-23.el invisible.el mcharset.el mcs-20.el mcs-e20.el mule-caesar.el path-util.el pccl-20.el pccl.el pces-20.el pces-e20.el pces.el pcustom.el poe.el poem-e20_3.el poem-e20.el poem.el product.el pym.el richtext.el static.el tinycustom.el

The error message was:

Wrote /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/apel/alist.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/apel/apel-ver.elc
Eager macro-expansion failure: (wrong-type-argument sequencep 769)
Loading `poe': old-style backquotes detected!

In toplevel form:
atype.el:28:1:Error: Wrong type argument: sequencep, 769
Eager macro-expansion failure: (wrong-type-argument sequencep 769)
Loading `poe': old-style backquotes detected!

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