[Bug 226800] Review Request: emacs-bbdb - email database for Emacs

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Summary: Review Request: emacs-bbdb - email database for Emacs


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=226800





------- Additional Comments From jonathan.underwood at gmail.com  2007-05-23 17:13 EST -------
OK, I have been conversing with the upstream maintainer about bbdb and VM - he
is upstream maintainer of both. He has this to say regarding building of bbdb
and VM:

"At least BBDB requires VM at built time as it uses VM
macros.  If you built without VM sources then the ELCs
will contain functions calls where macros should be used
and thus it will fail, i.e. they are broken!

IMHO for VM it is the same just the other way around.

This is no problem if your distro is using binary packages
with precompiled ELCs.  Then the package maintainer needs to
care for correct compilation, but the user is not forces to
install both packages."

And so that means that there's a chicken and egg issue with building these
packages because bbdb needs a BuildRequires: emacs-vm-el and vm needs a
BuildRequires: emacs-bbdb-el.

I am unsure how to deal with that, I shall ask on the maintainers list.


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