https://bugs.gentoo.org/459172

--- gnuplot-4.6.3-orig/docs/Makefile.in
+++ gnuplot-4.6.3/docs/Makefile.in
@@ -398,9 +398,9 @@
 	@if test "$(EMACS)" != no; then \
 	   test "$(top_srcdir)" = "$(top_builddir)" || echo "COPYING GNUPLOT.DOC" ; \
 	   test "$(top_srcdir)" = "$(top_builddir)" || cp $(srcdir)/gnuplot.doc . ; \
-	   $(EMACS) -batch -l $(srcdir)/doc2texi.el -f d2t-doc-to-texi ; \
+	   $(EMACS) -batch -q -no-site-file -l $(srcdir)/doc2texi.el -f d2t-doc-to-texi ; \
 	   echo "Compiling gnuplot-eldoc.el" ; \
-	   $(EMACS) -batch --eval='(byte-compile-file "gnuplot-eldoc.el")' ; \
+	   $(EMACS) -batch -q -no-site-file -f batch-byte-compile gnuplot-eldoc.el ; \
 	else \
 	   echo "No emacs found - cannot create texinfo file" ; \
 	fi