Syntax table change breaks package build

Sometime in the last week, something changed in 21.5 CVS that breaks the package build. I tried to build today and got a crash when byte compiling auctex/tex.el. This expression from line 3136 (modify-syntax-entry ?« "." TeX-mode-syntax-table) is no longer considered an sexp. Try doing forward-sexp across it, and you get an unbalanced parentheses error. This appears to be the problem: (char-syntax ?«) => \" -- Jerry James, Assistant Professor james(a)xemacs.org Computer Science Department http://www.cs.usu.edu/~jerry/ Utah State University