Building TB from source code

[Polytropon]

On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 08:58:07 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 20:49:30 -0600, jd1008 wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 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.
> 
> Which in the case of Firefox and Thunderbird,
> will pull in the sources from mozilla.com.

And probably add FreeBSD-specific patches.

I typically rely on the sources published in the ports collection
because they tend to "just work", even though they might be one
or two minor version subnumbers behind the bleeding-edge Linux
version. :-)


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