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MillTek

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Registered: 2005-01-30

Posts: 442

Can't buile Thunderbird 3 package from AUR

Hi,
I'm trying to build the Tbird 3 package from AUR and it keeps aborting because my system has autoconf-2.63-1 and the build seems to want 2.13.  Is there a way to fix this??? I tried modifying client.mk per the thread here;
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=59671
But every time I reatart the build it re-extracts the sources and overwrites the changes I made.  Is there a way to restart the build so that it will restart at the break point and not the start??

Thanks  (the output from the crash is below)

==> Extracting Sources...
  -> bsdtar -x -f thunderbird-3.0b2-source.tar.bz2
  -> bsdtar -x -f thunderbird-lang-3.0b2.tar.bz2
==> Removing existing pkg/ directory...
==> Starting build()...
patching file mail/app/profile/all-thunderbird.js
patching file mozilla/memory/jemalloc/jemalloc.h
patching file mail/installer/Makefile.in
patching file mozilla/gfx/thebes/src/gfxPangoFonts.cpp
patching file mozilla/toolkit/xre/nsAppRunner.cpp
Hunk #1 succeeded at 1484 (offset 9 lines).
Adding client.mk options from /SDA3/tbird3/src/.mozconfig:
    MOZ_CO_PROJECT=mail
    MOZ_OBJDIR=$(TOPSRCDIR)/objdir-tb/
    AUTOCONF=autoconf-2.13
    MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS=-j3
    BUILD_OFFICIAL=1
    MOZILLA_OFFICIAL=1
make[1]: Entering directory `/SDA3/tbird3/src'
Generating /SDA3/tbird3/src/configure using autoconf
cd /SDA3/tbird3/src; autoconf-2.13
/bin/sh: autoconf-2.13: command not found
make[1]: *** [/SDA3/tbird3/src/configure] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/SDA3/tbird3/src'
make: *** [/SDA3/tbird3/src/objdir-tb//Makefile] Error 2
==> ERROR: Build Failed.
    Aborting...

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: Can't buile Thunderbird 3 package from AUR

the answer is in aur comments.
you need autoconf-compat which is in aur.
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7224

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MillTek

Member

Registered: 2005-01-30

Posts: 442

Re: Can't buile Thunderbird 3 package from AUR

the answer is in aur comments.
you need autoconf-compat which is in aur.
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7224

Thank you Wonder!!   It's compiling right now.

banshee28

Member

Registered: 2008-10-18

Posts: 336

Re: Can't buile Thunderbird 3 package from AUR

Wow, it took over 2 hours to compile but I finally got it to build on my 32-bit system.

I have not setup my accounts yet, but tb opens and seems to work good.

Now I just have to figure out why it does not want to install on my x64 setup?

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MillTek

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Registered: 2005-01-30

Posts: 442

Re: Can't buile Thunderbird 3 package from AUR

OK. I built it and then I linked my old '.thunderbird' folder to it (so it would pick up my existing TBird mail folders).  When I ran it it displayed all the folders with 5 or 6 blank lines between each folder name. It would not display any email content at all. Is there  a bug or something I can fix??  If it's not that do I have to start with no previous .thunderbird file? If so, will it import the previous mail folders to display them properly??

Thanks

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,354

Re: Can't buile Thunderbird 3 package from AUR

The thunderbird 3 package in AUR is 32-bit only.

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