building lightning as part of thunderbird

Florian Smeets flo at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jul 4 21:32:38 UTC 2011


On 26.05.11 06:15, Mikhail T. wrote:
> It turns out, Lightning can already be built together with the rest of
> thunderbird
> <https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Simple_Thunderbird_build#Building_Thunderbird_and_Lightning>
> with the simple --enable-calendar configure-option. The attached patch
> does that unconditionally, but adding the OPTION (WITH_LIGHTNING?) is
> easy too.
>
> The patch installs the lightning.xpi into the same location, where
> deskutils/lightning-thunderbird installs it --- deliberately. With this
> addition, the lightning-thunderbird port (which currently rebuilds vast
> amounts of C and C++ code for just one shared library) can be removed.
> But, of course, the location can changed --- to something underneath
> lib/thunderbird, for example...
>

Hi,

i just committed a slightly different version of this patch.

Thanks,
Florian


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