I'm using the makefile, with GNU Emacs 21.3.1, on Red Hat 9. I'm including the full build output below.
Raul # make test -d ../../cedet-1.0beta2b -a -d ../../elib rm -f *.elc jde-compile-script-init echo "(add-to-list 'load-path \".\")" > jde-compile-script-init echo "(add-to-list 'load-path \"../../elib\")" >>jde-compile-script-init echo "(setq debug-on-error t)" >> jde-compile-script-init echo "(load-file \"../../cedet-1.0beta2b/common/cedet.el\")" >> jde-compile-script-init echo "(require 'jde-compat)" >> jde-compile-script-init echo "(require 'jde)" >>jde-compile-script-init if test `echo "emacs" | grep -w xemacs` ; \ then emacs -batch -l jde-compile-script-init -f batch-byte-compile `echo *.el` ; \ else emacs -batch -l jde-compile-script-init \ -f batch-byte-compile `ls -1 *.el | egrep -v 'jde-xemacs.el'`; \ fi; Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/lang-coding-systems-init.el (source)... Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/php-mode-init.el (source)... Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/po-mode-init.el (source)... Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/psgml-init.el (source)... Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/python-mode-init.el (source)... Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/rpm-spec-mode-init.el (source)... Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0beta2b/common/cedet.el (source)... "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0beta2b/common/" added to `load-path' "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0beta2b/eieio" added to `load-path' "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0beta2b/semantic" added to `load-path' Loading /usr/libexec/emacs/21.3/i386-redhat-linux/fns-21.3.1.el (source)... "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/cedet-1.0beta2b/speedbar" added to `load-path' Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function semantic-alias-obsolete) semantic-alias-obsolete(semantic-auto-parse-mode semantic-idle-scheduler-mode) byte-code("..." [semantic-add-minor-mode semantic-idle-scheduler-mode "ARP" nil semantic-alias-obsolete semantic-auto-parse-mode global-semantic-auto-parse-mode global-semantic-idle-scheduler-mode] 4) require(semantic-idle) eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*<4>> nil "jde-complete" nil t) load-with-code-conversion("/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/jde-2.3.4beta5/lisp/jde-complete.el" "jde-complete" nil t) require(jde-complete) eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*<3>> nil "jde-wiz" nil t) load-with-code-conversion("/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/jde-2.3.4beta5/lisp/jde-wiz.el" "jde-wiz" nil t) require(jde-wiz) eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*<2>> nil "jde" nil t) load-with-code-conversion("/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/jde-2.3.4beta5/lisp/jde.el" "jde" nil t) require(jde) eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*> nil "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/jde-2.3.4beta5/lisp/jde-compile-script-init" nil t) load-with-code-conversion("/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/jde-2.3.4beta5/lisp/jde-compile-script-init" "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/jde-2.3.4beta5/lisp/jde-compile-script-init" nil t) load("/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/jde-2.3.4beta5/lisp/jde-compile-script-init" nil t) command-line-1(("-l" "jde-compile-script-init" "-f" "batch-byte-compile" "beanshell.el" "efc.el" "efc-xemacs.el" "jde-ant.el" "jde-autoload.el" "jde-bug.el" "jde-checkstyle.el" "jde-class.el" "jde-compat.el" "jde-compile.el" "jde-complete.el" "jde-custom.el" "jde-db.el" "jde-dbo.el" "jde-dbs.el" "jde-ejb.el" "jde.el" "jde-gen.el" "jde-help.el" "jde-imenu.el" "jde-import.el" "jde-javadoc.el" "jde-javadoc-gen.el" "jde-java-font-lock.el" "jde-java-grammar.el" "jde-jdb.el" "jde-make.el" "jde-open-source.el" "jde-package.el" "jde-parse-class.el" "jde-parse.el" "jde-plugins.el" "jde-project-file.el" "jde-run.el" "jde-sregex.el" "jde-stat.el" "jde-tree-widget.el" "jde-util.el" "jde-which-method.el" "jde-widgets.el" "jde-wiz.el" "jde-xref.el" "setnu.el" "tree-widget.el")) command-line() normal-top-level() if test -f jde-compile-script-init; then rm -f jde-compile-script-init; fi;