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Re: Installation of VM 7.14 on Windows-NT (w/ MKS)

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From: David Masterson
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:43
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>>>>> Ronan Waide writes:

> kyle_jones@wonderworks.com (Kyle Jones) writes:

>> I recommend (require 'vm).  In the case of the autoloading build,
>> (require 'vm) will pick up the autoloads file.  In the case of the
>> non-autoloading build it will pick up everything.  But since I
>> changed a lot of VM's defmacro calls to defsubst, requires might
>> not be necessary to build BBDB.  I don't know for sure; the
>> maintainer of BBDB should check that.

> Perhaps I should :)

> We explicitly require a source version of VM lying around right now
> because we make use of macros present in the source (and obviously
> not present in the .elc file). Note also that the poster commented
> regarding BBDB 2.32; the current released version is 2.34, and most
> people seem to be using 2.35 which is the CVS version. I will
> readily admit that the VM integration is a bit clunky, but it's
> clunkier still if you don't follow the instructions.

Instructions?!?   ;-)

I installed BBDB quite awhile ago.  I was upgrading VM and thought the
expedient way would be to install the ".elc".  I'd forgotten about the
dependency on VM source by BBDB until it reminded me with the failed
'require'.

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David Masterson                David DOT Masterson AT synopsys DOT com
Sr. R&D Engineer               Synopsys, Inc.
Software Engineering           Sunnyvale, CA
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