Re: Wanderlust and BBDB 3.1.2 on stable Gentoo

On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 09:32:33AM +0000, Petrik Galvosas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using Gentoo linux and BBDB updated to version 3.1.2. The source
> is http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/bbdb/bbdb-3.1.2.tar.gz.
> 
> I am also using wanderlust 2.15.9_p20190623 from
> https://github.com/wanderlust/wanderlust/archive/
> 
> Sure enough, emacs 26.2 now complains on startup:
> 
> "No such file or directory, bbdb-hooks"
> 
> Commenting out all bbdb related stuff brings back normal emacs and
> wanderlust but of course without bbdb.
> 
> I read up on several threads regarding BBDB 3 and saw the message from
> Rob Walker (25 Mar 2018) but I can't find bbdb/wl-header in bbdb-wl.el.
> 
> I noticed something saying about melpa but prefer to stick with my
> vanilla stable portage repositories.
> 
> Any ideas how I can BBDB back?

I guess 3.1.2 (released 2014) is too old and you need master from git or melpa:

https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/git/bbdb.git
https://melpa.org/#/bbdb

The following page shows 3.2 as latest version:

https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/bbdb.git

-- 
Herbert