ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a Linux user and don't have root access.
Intro
Having just gone through my guide on installing Firefox now you’re ready to do basically the same thing for Thunderbird.
This guide assumes you’re leaving off from my previous post : http://warped.org/blog/2009/03/04/chown3d-part-2-gtk-and-glib-in-your-own-home-directory/ where you’ve setup a script called config_gapp.
Prerequisites
- firefox-3.6.2.source.tar.bz2
- nss-3.12.6-with-nspr-4.8.4.tar.gz
- sqlite-amalgamation-3.6.23.1.tar.gz
- Python-2.5.5.tar.bz2
- NSPR Patch from Standalone Linux (READ THIS!)
- NSS Patch from Standalone Linux (READ THIS!)
- My Patch for OSS
Building
Follow my guide on installing Firefox for all the prereqs.
Thunderbird 3.0 Building
Configuring
Make a file called mozconfig-tbird
mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/objdir-tb-release mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j4" ac_add_options --enable-application=mail ac_add_options --enable-official-branding ac_add_options --prefix=/home/$USER/share/thunderbird # required for make package for tbird now? ac_add_options --enable-static # Optimization ac_add_options --disable-tests ac_add_options --disable-debug ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-O2 -funroll-loops -fexpensive-optimizations" ac_add_options --enable-strip # Features ac_add_options --disable-accessibility ac_add_options --disable-updater ac_add_options --disable-installer #ac_add_options --enable-safe-browsing ac_add_options --enable-xinerama # Libraries / Dependencies ac_add_options --disable-libnotify ac_add_options --disable-gnomevfs ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2 ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo ac_add_options --with-system-nss ac_add_options --with-nss-prefix=/home/$USER ac_add_options --with-system-nspr ac_add_options --with-nspr-prefix=/home/$USER ac_add_options --enable-system-sqlite
Building
I had to patch firefox to use OSS instead of ALSA because EL4 doesn’t have a working ALSA by default. If you have ALSA working, you may not have to do this step. I got the guts of this patch from somewhere, but I can’t find it now, thanks whoever you are!
The patch is on my build firefox page referenced above.
The following is a fork of my config_gapp script. There are some tricky bits because I’ve left off some -L’s to avoid the NSS and NSPR libs that are installed in /usr/lib64.
#!/bin/sh LOCAL_HOME=/home/$USER export PATH=$LOCAL_HOME/bin:$PATH export CPPFLAGS="-I$LOCAL_HOME/include -I$LOCAL_HOME/include/nss -I/usr/X11R6/include $CPPFLAGS" export CFLAGS="-I$LOCAL_HOME/include -I$LOCAL_HOME/include/nss -I/usr/X11R6/include $CFLAGS" export CXXFLAGS="-I$LOCAL_HOME/include -I$LOCAL_HOME/include/nss -I/usr/X11R6/include $CXXFLAGS" #export LDFLAGS="-L$LOCAL_HOME/lib -L/usr/lib64 -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 $LDFLAGS" export LDFLAGS="-L$LOCAL_HOME/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 $LDFLAGS" export PKG_CONFIG=$LOCAL_HOME/bin/pkg-config export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$LOCAL_HOME/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH" #export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LOCAL_HOME/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib64:/usr/lib64" export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LOCAL_HOME/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib64" # NOTE: I had to hardcode the path for some reason export MOZCONFIG=/path/to/mozconfig-tbird make -j 4 -f client.mk build # make package # look in dist/*.tar.bz2
Installing
First you make a .tar.bz2, then you go install it.
cd objdir-tb-release make package cp mozilla/dist/*.tar.bz2 /somewhere cd $HOME/share tar xvfj /path/to/that/*.tar.bz2
Now make a wrapper script $HOME/bin/thunderbird :
#!/bin/sh exec run_gapp /home/$USER/share/thunderbird/thunderbird "$@"
Errors
Here are some of the error messages I encountered along the way that were solved w/ the prerequisites and patch. Hopefully this helps future googlers.
nsUrlClassifierDBService.cpp:(.text+0x678): undefined reference to `inflateInit_' nsUrlClassifierDBService.cpp:(.text+0x69c): undefined reference to `inflate' nsUrlClassifierDBService.cpp:(.text+0x6d4): undefined reference to `inflateEnd'
Changed thunderbird-3.0.4/objdir-tb-release/mozilla/toolkit/components/build/Makefile to add libz to the compile. I’m sure there’s a classier way of doing this.
EXTRA_DSO_LDOPTS += \
$(LIBS_DIR) \
$(EXTRA_DSO_LIBS) \
$(MOZ_UNICHARUTIL_LIBS) \
$(MOZ_COMPONENT_LIBS) \
$(MOZ_JS_LIBS) \
$(NULL) \
-lz/path/to/thunderbird-3.0.4/directory/c-sdk/ldap/libraries/libprldap/ldappr-public.c:45:27: /$HOME/include/nss/private/pprio.h: Permission denied
Fix yer permissions. duh.
