when i try to emerge app-emacs/bbdb, it fails with an error message during the byte compilation of files in bbdb/bits/*.el. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge app-emacs/bbdb 2. 3. Actual Results: In toplevel form: bits/bbdb-anniv.el:66:1:Error: Cannot open load file: bbdb In toplevel form: bits/bbdb-edit.el:32:1:Error: Cannot open load file: bbdb Wrote /var/tmp/portage/bbdb-2.34-r1/work/bbdb-2.34/bits/bbdb-mail-folders.elc In toplevel form: bits/bbdb-pgp.el:94:1:Error: Cannot open load file: bbdb In end of data: bits/bbdb-signature.el:193:1:Warning: the following functions are not known to be defined: bbdb-search-simple, bbdb-record-getprop Wrote /var/tmp/portage/bbdb-2.34-r1/work/bbdb-2.34/bits/bbdb-signature.elc In bbdb/calendar-mark-entries: bits/bbdb-sort-mailrc.el:74:18:Warning: reference to free variable displayed-month bits/bbdb-sort-mailrc.el:75:17:Warning: reference to free variable displayed-year In bbdb/calendar-mark-month: bits/bbdb-sort-mailrc.el:83:4:Warning: `message' called with 2 args to fill 0 format field(s) In bbdb/calendar-list-entries: bits/bbdb-sort-mailrc.el:92:4:Warning: `message' called with 2 args to fill 0 format field(s) bits/bbdb-sort-mailrc.el:94:56:Warning: reference to free variable original-date bits/bbdb-sort-mailrc.el:95:23:Warning: reference to free variable number In bbdb-record-mail-aliases: bits/bbdb-sort-mailrc.el:188:42:Warning: reference to free variable bbdb-define-all-aliases-field In bbdb-check-mail-alias: bits/bbdb-sort-mailrc.el:207:37:Warning: reference to free variable bbdb-define-all-aliases-field In my-define-mail-abbrev: bits/bbdb-sort-mailrc.el:228:15:Warning: local-write-file-hooks is an obsolete variable since 21.4; use write-file-functions instead. bits/bbdb-sort-mailrc.el:228:10:Warning: local-write-file-hooks is an obsolete variable since 21.4; use write-file-functions instead. In end of data: bits/bbdb-sort-mailrc.el:307:1:Warning: the following functions are not known to be defined: add-to-diary-list, bbdb-records, bbdb-record-getprop, bbdb-split, bbdb-record-name, parse-string-end, bbdb-current-record, bbdb-redisplay-one-record, bbdb-record-net, bbdb-record-putprop, bbdb-dwim-net-address, bbdb-define-all-aliases, bbdb-cache-sortkey, bbdb-record-cache, bbdb-cache-set-sortkey, bbdb-record-lastname, bbdb-record-firstname, bbdb-record-company Wrote /var/tmp/portage/bbdb-2.34-r1/work/bbdb-2.34/bits/bbdb-sort-mailrc.elc In toplevel form: bits/bbdb-to-outlook.el:35:1:Error: Cannot open load file: bbdb In date-insert-today: bits/dates.el:94:4:Warning: insert-string is an obsolete function since 21.4; use insert instead. In end of data: bits/dates.el:214:1:Warning: the following functions are not known to be defined: f, f/ Wrote /var/tmp/portage/bbdb-2.34-r1/work/bbdb-2.34/bits/dates.elc Wrote /var/tmp/portage/bbdb-2.34-r1/work/bbdb-2.34/bits/point-at.elc !!! ERROR: app-emacs/bbdb-2.34-r1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 49, Exitcode 1 !!! (no error message) Expected Results: emerge should have completed successfully and app-emacs/bbdb installed. reason for the problem: the error messages are generated during the byte compilation of the bbdb/bits/*.el files. the problem is due to the fact that lisp files in bbdb/lisp/*.el (which are referenced from bbdb/bits/*.el) are not in the load path. solution: simply adding bbdb/lisp/ to the load-path does the trick. That's it! Thanks very much. You'll be notified by email about any progress that is made on fixing your bug. the diffs: i am not sure how the patches are submitted for ebuild problems. so i am submitting a normal diff. if the required format is different please let me know, and i will do the needful. thanks ! --- /usr/portage/app-emacs/bbdb/bbdb-2.34-r1.ebuild 2004-04-25 22:40:13.000000000 +0530 +++ /root/anupam-bbdb-2.34-r1.ebuild 2004-06-02 12:27:44.010057056 +0530 @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ econf --with-emacs=emacs || die "econf failed" make || die - echo "(add-to-list 'load-path \"${S}/bits\")" > ${T}/lp.el + echo "(setq load-path (append '(\"${S}/lisp\" \"${S}/bits\") load-path))" > ${T}/lp.el emacs -batch -q --no-site-file --no-init-file \ -l ${T}/lp.el -f batch-byte-compile bits/*.el || die }
I backported fix to that problem from bbdb-2.35_pre20040323.ebuild (the problem was fixed in that ebuild but I was too lazy to apply the patch against 2.34-r1). Thanks for the bug report.
