Ignore errors from font-lock-compile-keywords.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/cc-defs.el b/lisp/progmodes/cc-defs.el
index b237dd9a598..9de0a24f09e 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/cc-defs.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/cc-defs.el
@@ -72,7 +72,9 @@
 (eval-after-load "font-lock"
   '(if (and (not (featurep 'cc-fix)) ; only load the file once.
             (let (font-lock-keywords)
-              (font-lock-compile-keywords '("\\<\\>"))
+              (condition-case nil
+                  (font-lock-compile-keywords '("\\<\\>"))
+                (error nil))
               font-lock-keywords))     ; did the previous call foul this up?
        (load "cc-fix")))
 
@@ -83,7 +85,9 @@
            (progn
              (require 'font-lock)
              (let (font-lock-keywords)
-               (font-lock-compile-keywords '("\\<\\>"))
+               (condition-case nil
+                   (font-lock-compile-keywords '("\\<\\>"))
+                 (error nil))
                font-lock-keywords)))
       (cc-load "cc-fix")))