notmuch-crypto.el: "‘notmuch-show-get-message-id’ is not known to be defined"

[David Edmondson]

On Wednesday, 2020-03-18 at 10:49:14 +01, Örjan Ekeberg wrote:

> Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> writes:
>
>> When building the current version of notmuch on debian testing/unstable,
>> i see the following warning:
>>
>> ```
>> EMACS emacs/notmuch-crypto.elc
>>
>> In end of data:
>> emacs/notmuch-crypto.el:266:1:Warning: the function
>>     ‘notmuch-show-get-message-id’ is not known to be defined.
>> ```
>>
>> No part of the test suite fails so i assume it's not a problem, but
>> having spurious warnings makes it harder to notice real warnings in the
>> future.
>>
>> I don't know what the warning means exactly, but maybe someone who is
>> better with elisp than i am could take a look at it and try to resolve
>> it?
>
> Adding this line in notmuch-crypto.el solves this:
>
> (declare-function notmuch-show-get-message-id "notmuch-show" (&optional bare))
>
> As a matter of style, I am not sure where to put it.  Normally, these
> declarations are put in the beginning of the file; right after the
> require-statements.  In notmuch-crypto.el, however, the only other
> declaration is put just in front of where the function is called.

As you say, we normally gather them near to the top of the file.

dme.
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