glfs/xsoft/other/thunderbird.xml
Tim Tassonis ea1dc0f6cb Update to thunderbird-68.3.0.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
%general-entities;
<!ENTITY thunderbird-download-http "&mozilla-http;/thunderbird/releases/&thunderbird-version;/source/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;.source.tar.xz">
<!ENTITY thunderbird-download-ftp " ">
<!ENTITY thunderbird-md5sum "ae99c0e5a7b4068557f8bcca6adf1fde">
<!ENTITY thunderbird-size "316 MB">
<!ENTITY thunderbird-buildsize "4.2 GB (151 MB installed)">
<!ENTITY thunderbird-time "31 SBU (with -j4, estimated 90 SBU with -j1)">
<!-- Verified the time at -j1 on another system for posterity's sake. -->
]>
<sect1 id="thunderbird" xreflabel="Thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;">
<?dbhtml filename="thunderbird.html" ?>
<sect1info>
<othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
<date>$Date$</date>
</sect1info>
<title>Thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;</title>
<indexterm zone="thunderbird">
<primary sortas="a-Thunderbird">Thunderbird</primary>
</indexterm>
<sect2 role="package">
<title>Introduction to Thunderbird</title>
<para>
<application>Thunderbird</application> is a stand-alone mail/news client
based on the <application>Mozilla</application> codebase. It uses the
Gecko rendering engine to enable it to display and compose HTML emails.
</para>
&lfs90_checked;
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
<listitem>
<para>
Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&thunderbird-download-http;"/>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Download (FTP): <ulink url="&thunderbird-download-ftp;"/>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Download MD5 sum: &thunderbird-md5sum;
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Download size: &thunderbird-size;
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Estimated disk space required: &thunderbird-buildsize;
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Estimated build time: &thunderbird-time;
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Thunderbird Dependencies</bridgehead>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
<para role="required">
<!-- <xref linkend="alsa-lib"/>, no mention in log -->
<xref linkend="autoconf213"/>,
both <xref linkend="gtk3"/>
and <xref linkend="gtk2"/>,
<xref linkend="llvm"/>, <!-- Searched for and used a few times -->
<xref linkend="rust"/>,
<xref linkend="zip"/>,
<xref linkend="unzip"/>, and
<xref linkend="yasm"/>
</para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
<para role="recommended">
<xref linkend="icu"/>,
<xref linkend="libevent"/>,
<!-- Fails to build with version 1.8.0
<xref linkend="libvpx"/>,-->
<xref linkend="nspr"/>,
<xref linkend="nss"/>, and
<xref linkend="sqlite"/>
</para>
<note>
<para>
If you don't install recommended dependencies,
then internal copies of those packages will
be used. They might be tested to work, but
they can be out of date or contain security
holes.
</para>
</note>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
<para role="optional">
<!-- <xref linkend="curl"/>, not in build log-->
<xref linkend="cyrus-sasl"/>,
<xref linkend="dbus-glib"/>,
<xref linkend="doxygen"/>,
<xref linkend="GConf"/>,
<!--<xref linkend="gst10-plugins-base"/> (with
<xref linkend="gst10-plugins-good"/> and
<xref linkend="gst10-libav"/> at runtime),-->
<!-- <xref linkend="openjdk"/>, not in build log -->
<xref linkend="pulseaudio"/>,
<xref linkend="startup-notification"/>,
<xref linkend="wget"/>, and
<xref linkend="wireless_tools"/>
</para>
<para condition="html" role="usernotes">
User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/Thunderbird"/>
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Thunderbird</title>
<note>
<para>
The build process for Thunderbird can use 8GB+ of RAM when linking.
Make sure that you have adequate swap or RAM before continuing.
</para>
</note>
<para>
The configuration of <application>Thunderbird</application> is
accomplished by creating a <filename>mozconfig</filename> file containing
the desired configuration options. A default
<filename>mozconfig</filename> is created below. To see the entire list
of available configuration options (and a brief description of each),
issue <command>mozilla/configure --help</command>. Create the file with
the following command:
</para>
<screen><userinput>cat &gt; mozconfig &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal># If you have a multicore machine, the build may be faster if using parallel
# jobs. The build system automatically adds -jN to the "make" flags, where N
# is the number of CPU cores. The option below is therefore useless, unless
# you want to use a smaller number of jobs:
#mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j1"
# If you have installed dbus-glib, comment out this line:
ac_add_options --disable-dbus
# If you have installed wireless-tools comment out this line:
ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi
# Uncomment these lines if you have installed optional dependencies:
#ac_add_options --enable-startup-notification
# Comment out following option if you have PulseAudio installed
ac_add_options --disable-pulseaudio
# Comment out following option if you have gconf installed
ac_add_options --disable-gconf
# If you want to compile the Mozilla Calendar, uncomment this line:
#ac_add_options --enable-calendar
# Comment out following options if you have not installed
# recommended dependencies:
ac_add_options --enable-system-sqlite
ac_add_options --with-system-libevent
ac_add_options --with-system-nspr
ac_add_options --with-system-nss
ac_add_options --with-system-icu
<!--Not with libvpx-1.8.0 or later
ac_add_options - -with-system-libvpx
====
These do not seem to be needed any more
# Set CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS to prevent segfaults due to aggressive
# optimizations in GCC-6:
export CFLAGS+=" -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -fno-lifetime-dse -fno-schedule-insns2"
export CXXFLAGS+=" -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -fno-lifetime-dse -fno-schedule-insns2"
-->
# The BLFS editors recommend not changing anything below this line:
ac_add_options --prefix=/usr
ac_add_options --enable-application=comm/mail
ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter
ac_add_options --disable-updater
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --enable-optimize=-O2
ac_add_options --enable-strip
ac_add_options --enable-install-strip
ac_add_options --enable-official-branding
ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi
ac_add_options --enable-system-pixman
ac_add_options --with-system-bz2
ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg
ac_add_options --with-system-png
ac_add_options --with-system-zlib</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>
<para>
Compile <application>Thunderbird</application> by issuing the following
commands:
</para>
<note><para>
If you are compiling <application>Thunderbird</application> in chroot,
prepend <envar>SHELL=/bin/sh</envar> to the build command below.
</para></note>
<!--
<para>
First, disable failure caused by undocumented rust macros:
</para>
<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i -e '/#!\[deny(missing_docs)\]/d' servo/components/style/lib.rs &amp;&amp;
sed -i -e 's/#!\[deny(unsafe_code, missing_docs)\]/#!\[deny(unsafe_code)\]/g' servo/components/style_traits/lib.rs</userinput></screen>
<para>
Remove a function definition, which is incompatible with the one in
glibc-2.30:
</para>
<screen><userinput>sed -i -e '/pid_t gettid/s@^@//@' tools/profiler/core/platform.h</userinput></screen>
<para>
Next, build the package:
</para>
-->
<screen><userinput>./mach build</userinput></screen>
<para>
This package does not come with a test suite.
</para>
<para>
Install <application>Thunderbird</application> by running the following
commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
</para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>./mach install</userinput></screen>
<!-- thunderbuild directory does not exist anymore. Leaving as comment,
in case an editor figures out how to install the development environment.
<para>
The above instruction just installs the parts you need to run
<application>Thunderbird</application>. Alternatively, if you want to
install the full <application>Thunderbird</application> development
environment, run the following command as the
<systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
</para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>make -C thunderbuild install</userinput></screen>
-->
</sect2>
<sect2 role="commands">
<title>Command Explanations</title>
<!-- might be necessary
<para>
<command>test $(uname -m) = "i686" &amp;&amp; sed ...</command>: On this
version of thunderbird, an old bug has reappeared in 32-bit builds. With
optimization, the install fails with a Python error. This command will
fix i686 builds and preserve the optimization on x86_64.
</para>
<para>
<command>export CFLAGS= ... export CXXFLAGS= ...</command>: These
settings work around code which gcc6 would otherwise regard as
out-of-specification and allow it to produce a working program.
</para>-->
<para>
<command>./mach build</command>: <application>Thunderbird</application>
now uses this <application>python2</application> script to run the
build and install.
</para>
<para>
<option>./mach build --verbose</option>: Use this alternative if you
need details of which files are being compiled, together with any C or
C++ flags being used.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="configuration">
<title>Configuring Thunderbird</title>
<sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>
<para>
If your Window or Desktop Manager does not allow you to configure a
default browser, you can add a configuration parameter to
<application>Thunderbird</application> so that a browser will start when
when you click on an Internet/intranet/local URL. The procedure to check
or modify any of the configuration parameters is quite simple and the
instructions here can be used to view or modify any of the parameters.
</para>
<para>
First, open the configuration dialog by opening the <quote>Edit</quote>
drop-down menu. Choose <quote>Preferences</quote> and then click on the
<quote>Advanced</quote> icon on the top menu bar. Choose the
<quote>General</quote> tab and click on the <quote>Config Editor</quote>
button. This will display a list of the configuration preferences and
information related to each one. You can use the <quote>Filter:</quote>
bar to enter search criteria and narrow down the listed items. Changing
a preference can be done using two methods. One, if the preference has a
boolean value (True/False), simply double-click on the preference to
toggle the value and two, for other preferences simply right-click on
the desired line, choose <quote>Modify</quote> from the menu and change
the value. Creating new preference items is accomplished in the same
way, except choose <quote>New</quote> from the menu and provide the
desired data into the fields when prompted.
</para>
<para>
The configuration preference item you need to check so that
<application>Thunderbird</application> uses a specified browser is the
<parameter>network.protocol-handler.app.http</parameter> which should be
set to the path of the desired browser, e.g.
<option>/usr/bin/firefox</option>.
</para>
<tip>
<para>
There is a multitude of configuration parameters you can tweak to
customize <application>Thunderbird</application>. A very extensive,
but not so up-to-date list of these parameters can be found at
<ulink url="http://preferential.mozdev.org/preferences.html"/>.
</para>
</tip>
<para>
If you use a desktop environment such as <application>GNOME</application>
or <application>KDE</application>, a desktop file
<filename>thunderbird.desktop</filename> may be created, in order to
include a <quote><application>Thunderbird</application></quote> entry in
the menu. If you didn't enable
<application>startup-notification</application> in your mozconfig, then
change the StartupNotify line to false. Run the following commands as the
<systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
</para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>mkdir -pv /usr/share/{applications,pixmaps} &amp;&amp;
cat &gt; /usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop &lt;&lt; "EOF" &amp;&amp;
<literal>[Desktop Entry]
Name=Thunderbird Mail
Comment=Send and receive mail with Thunderbird
GenericName=Mail Client
Exec=thunderbird %u
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=thunderbird
Categories=Network;Email;
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/rss+xml;x-scheme-handler/mailto;
StartupNotify=true</literal>
EOF
ln -sfv /usr/lib/thunderbird/chrome/icons/default/default256.png \
/usr/share/pixmaps/thunderbird.png</userinput></screen>
</sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="content">
<title>Contents</title>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Installed Program</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg>
thunderbird
</seg>
<seg>
libldap60.so, libldif60.so, liblgpllibs.so, libmozgtk.so,
libmozsandbox.so, libprldap60.so, and libxul.so
</seg>
<seg>
/usr/lib/thunderbird
</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
<variablelist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
<?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
<varlistentry id="thunderbird-prog">
<term><command>thunderbird</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>
is <application>Mozilla</application>'s email and newsgroup client.
</para>
<indexterm zone="thunderbird thunderbird-prog">
<primary sortas="b-thunderbird">thunderbird</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>
</sect1>