[emacs] manually add bbdb into lisp/bbdb/

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/init.org b/init.org
index 5157463..ced62ea 100644
--- a/init.org
+++ b/init.org
@@ -2391,23 +2391,33 @@ Convenient footnotes in =message-mode=.
 ;;   :after ebdb)
 #+end_src
 
-** COMMENT bbdb
+** bbdb
 
-#+begin_comment
+Manually install bbdb (=lisp/bbdb= copied from an ELPA-based setup),
+because installing it from source on Emacs 27 using the following
+submodule configuration for some reason doesn’t work and results in
+very strange errors when using any of the functions.
+
+#+begin_src conf :tangle no
 [submodule "bbdb"]
 	path = lib/bbdb
 	url = https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/git/bbdb.git
-	load-path = lisp/elisp
+	load-path = lisp
 	info-path = doc
 	build-step = ./autogen.sh
-	build-step = ./configure --with-lispdir=elisp
+	build-step = ./configure
 	build-step = make
 	build-step = make install
-#+end_comment
+#+end_src
+
+I tried using =borg-elpa= instead of doing it like this, but it added
+2 seconds to my startup time, which is unacceptable to me.
 
 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
 (use-package bbdb
+  :load-path "lisp/bbdb"
   :init
+  (load (expand-file-name "lisp/bbdb/bbdb-autoloads.el" user-emacs-directory))
   (bbdb-mua-auto-update-init 'message)
   (setq bbdb-mua-auto-update-p 'query)
   (add-hook 'gnus-startup-hook 'bbdb-insinuate-gnus))