Building TB from source code

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Sat Jul 11 02:53:34 UTC 2015


On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 20:49:30 -0600, jd1008 wrote:
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> 
> On 07/10/2015 06:02 PM, Baho Utot wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 07/10/15 17:29, jd1008 wrote:
> >> Has anyone been successful in building it from source code?
> >> Last time I tried, build failed because it required versions
> >> of packages that were of much older vintage than what was installed.
> >> Too many for me to recall.
> >>
> >> Need helpful hints, how-to's to accomplish this.
> >>
> >> I posted the same question to Fedora list and it has been
> >> so totally ignored, that I find it very interesting.
> > By TB I am thinking thunderbird...correct?
> >
> > Yes I build Thunderbird and firefox all the time using poudriere.
> >
> > Works for me.
> Cool!
> I wonder if you tried it on the TB or FF sources you downloaded directly 
> from mozilla.com???

Poudriere will use the sources from the FreeBSD ports collection.


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