Re: spam.el: asking about removing spam-use-BBDB

[david.goldberg6@verizon.net (Dave Goldberg)]

> On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:45:13 -0400 Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote: 

> I comitted a fix that removes the whole `bbdb-search*' issue.  It also
> avoids the BBDB autoloads.  Please test and let me know.

> Simplest test to verify it pick knownemail@knownhost.com out of BBDB,
> then:

> (spam-exists-in-BBDB-p "knownemail@knownhost.com")

> The fundamental issue is with the `bbdb-search' defmacro and
> compile-time detection of BBDB.  I'm not good enough with that part of
> Emacs to tell what's up, but I think I've taken the right (and faster)
> approach.

It works, but only if I compile spam.el with bbdb loaded.  spam.elc created by the Makefile doesn't pick it up.  I get this backtrace when trying the test:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-function bbdb-gethash)
  bbdb-gethash("david.goldberg6@verizon.net")
  spam-exists-in-BBDB-p("david.goldberg6@verizon.net")
  eval((spam-exists-in-BBDB-p "david.goldberg6@verizon.net"))
  eval-expression((spam-exists-in-BBDB-p "david.goldberg6@verizon.net") nil)
  call-interactively(eval-expression nil nil)

When compiled in my running emacs with bbdb loaded, the test returns the bbdb entry for that address.

I have to wonder if this is because I do not have bbdb installed in a particular location that gets picked up by emacs -batch, which i understand does not load .emacs.  When I used to use xemacs (still do at work, but don't use spam.el there because all filtering is on the server) I installed bbdb in a local "package" directory tree in my home directory.  Is there an equivalent to that with GNU Emacs I should be using?

Thanks,
-- 
Dave Goldberg
david.goldberg6@verizon.net