On Wednesday, January 2, 2008 at 19:48:19, Haines Brown wrote:
> > But you may not need to upgrade in order to fix your problem.
> > It seems that Emacs 23 simply does not find BBDB at all.
> >
> > Try M-x find-library RET bbdb RET.
> >
> > If it cannot find bbdb, then add its location to the
> > load-path, else add a (require 'bbdb ... to your MUAs
> > init file.
>
> Robert,
>
> Thanks. Indeed, it was not able to find-library for bbdb:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Can't find library bbdb")
> signal(error ("Can't find library bbdb"))
> error("Can't find library %s" "bbdb")
>
> I thought I already had bbdb in my load path. In ~./emacs I have:
>
> (setq load-path (nconc (list "~/lisp") load-path))
> (setq load-path (append load-path (list
> "~/elisp"
> "~/elisp/bbdb"
> ...
> )))
>
> and I have ~/elisp/bbdb and in it a bunch of .elc files.
If it cannot be found then load-path does not contain the
directory. You can also run BBDB directly from the sources
where there are also the .el files. Well anyway check the
value of load-path.
> I didn't understand your point about adding (require...). I don't
> think I compiled bbdb initially to use an e-mail client, and I start
> bbdb with the M-x bbdb-name command rather than rely on an e-mail
> client to do it. In any case, I use rmail, and have no init file for
> it that I can see.
The require is only needed if the autoloads are not found,
but the sources are somewhere in the load-path.
Bye
Robert
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