On 12/05/2013 01:20 PM, Armin K. wrote: > 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. Thanks, Armin. You saved me 55 SBU's. :-)
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