Re: spam.el and missing functions

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Wed, 09 Oct 2002, yamaoka@jpl.org wrote:
>> I fixed the BBDB errors with:
> 
>> ;; BBDB autoloads
>> (autoload 'bbdb-search "bbdb-com")
> 
> Unfortunately, it doesn't fix.  The byte-compiler still generates
> the byte-code which is equivalent to `(funcall 'bbdb-search args)'
> in the function `spam-check-bbdb'

> Since the macro definition of `bbdb-search' should be expanded
> before byte-compiling the function `spam-check-bbdb',
> bbdb-com.elc should be loaded at the compile time rather than
> autoloaded.  The following code will help only BBDB users who
> have already installed BBDB.

OK, I added your patch (if I understand correctly, it still autoloads
the bbdb-records function, but the bbdb-search macro needs special
treatment), but what do we do if the user does not have BBDB
installed?  

As far as I'm concerned, spam-check-bbdb can just be an empty function
without a BBDB installation, or it can raise an error.

Ted