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 -- ++++++ George McNinch <gmcninch(at)gmail.com> ++++++ http://gmcninch.math.tufts.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/