On 5.12.2013 18:31, Dan McGhee wrote: > The first thing is that the build bailed out on me because I didn't have > gstreamer installed. That's not listed in any of the dependencies. > > I just wanted to get a working Thunderbird so that I wouldn't have to > keep rebooting to get to my e-mail. I have it, but I want it built with > all the system dependencies and right now it's not. My troubles with > NSS are documented in another thread. > > But I'm going to build it again, which leads to my next observation. > > In preparing for Firefox, the book, BLFS SVN, gives the procedure for > linking it agains XULrunner. (And I hope this isn't a mis-print, but > that the build time for Firefox drops from 55 to .3 SBU's. > Fantastic.). The page for Thunderbird says nothing about XULrunner. > I'm just making the assumption, and I would like someone to verify it, > that since Thunderbird also employs the gekko-engine it will also link > against XULrunner. Is this correct? > > I want to minimize the number of 50+ SBU builds. :-) > > Thanks, > Dan >
You can't link thunderbird to an external version of xulrunner. First of all, versions differ and second, I believe thunderbird uses some custom modifications or addition to the engine itself. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
