Re: MELPA BBDB - bbdb-version

2015-11-21 Thread Roland Winkler
On Sat Nov 21 2015 George McNinch wrote:
> That was actually inaccurate - I had failed to snip a setting of
> load-path pointing to a directory for bbdb that I had populated via git
> (and that seemed to be the version of bbdb being used).

Which git repository did you use?  The "official" repository is

  git.savannah.nongnu.org/bbdb.git

> ,
> | bbdb-version is a variable defined in ‘bbdb-site.el’.
> | Its value is "@PACKAGE_VERSION@"
> `

You need to properly `make' BBDB (see the README file in the
repository) in order to get a meaningful value assigned to
bbdb-version.

If you just compile the elisp files from the git repository and also
when you get BBDB from Melpa the variable bbdb-version has the
meaningless value "@PACKAGE_VERSION@".

Roland

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Re: MELPA BBDB - bbdb-version

2015-11-21 Thread George McNinch
Hi--

RW> On Sat Nov 21 2015 George McNinch wrote:
>> That was actually inaccurate - I had failed to snip a setting of
>> load-path pointing to a directory for bbdb that I had populated
>> via git (and that seemed to be the version of bbdb being used).

RW> Which git repository did you use?  The "official" repository is

RW>   git.savannah.nongnu.org/bbdb.git

>> , | bbdb-version is a variable defined in ‘bbdb-site.el’.  |
>> Its value is "@PACKAGE_VERSION@" `

RW> You need to properly `make' BBDB (see the README file in the
RW> repository) in order to get a meaningful value assigned to
RW> bbdb-version.


The version I have via *git* works fine for me.

RW> If you just compile the elisp files from the git repository and
RW> also when you get BBDB from Melpa the variable bbdb-version has
RW> the meaningless value "@PACKAGE_VERSION@".

This behavior of a MELPA install is what I was trying to report.  Surely
there is *some* way to have the MELPA install process "properly make"
BBDB?

Well, perhaps this is not such a huge issue.

-gm

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Re: MELPA BBDB - bbdb-version

2015-11-21 Thread Roland Winkler
On Sat Nov 21 2015 George McNinch wrote:
> This behavior of a MELPA install is what I was trying to report.
> Surely there is *some* way to have the MELPA install process
> "properly make" BBDB?

I do not know many details about MELPA.  Yet it uses an automated
scheme where I was told it was not really compatible with the
automake rules used by BBDB.

Roland

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