Thunderbird is a stand-alone mail/news client based on the Mozilla codebase.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.0 platform.
Download (HTTP): http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/9.0.1/source/thunderbird-9.0.1.source.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/9.0.1/source/thunderbird-9.0.1.source.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: a5904751dbd33074682b438b732fdbab
Download size: 91 MB
Estimated disk space required: 3 GB (46 MB installed)
Estimated build time: 26 SBU
ALSA Library-1.0.24.1, gtk+-2.24.8 Zip-3.0 and UnZip-6.0
Note: libjpeg and libpng (patched for apng support) should have
been installed before gdk-pixbuf
and should exist on your system. If for some strange reason you
haven't installed them, you should remove the --with-system-jpeg and --with-system-png options from the mozconfig file created below.
D-Bus GLib Bindings-0.98, Doxygen-1.7.5, GNOME Virtual File System-2.24.4 and libgnomeui-2.24.3 (for gnome integration), libnotify-0.4.5, NSS-3.13.1, NSPR-4.8.9, startup-notification-0.9, SQLite-3.7.8, yasm-1.2.0 (or libvpx-v0.9.7), Hunspell, Libevent, Valgrind (only for testing the jemalloc code), and Wget-1.13.4
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Thunderbird
The configuration of Thunderbird
is accomplished by creating a mozconfig file containing the desired
configuration options. A default mozconfig is created below. To see the entire
list of available configuration options (and an abbreviated
description of each one), issue ./configure --help. Create the
file by issuing the following command:
patch -p1 < ../thunderbird-9.0.1-libpng-1.5-1.patch && cat > mozconfig << "EOF" # If you have a multicore machine you can speed up the build by running # several jobs at once, but if you have a single core, delete this line: mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j4" # If you have installed Yasm delete this option: ac_add_options --disable-webm # If you have installed DBus-Glib delete this option: ac_add_options --disable-dbus # If you have installed wireless-tools delete this option: ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi # If you have installed libnotify delete this option: ac_add_options --disable-libnotify # Uncomment these if you have installed them: # ac_add_options --with-system-nspr # ac_add_options --with-system-nss # ac_add_options --enable-system-sqlite # ac_add_options --with-system-libvpx # ac_add_options --enable-startup-notification # ac_add_options --enable-system-hunspell # ac_add_options --with-system-libevent mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/thunderbuild ac_add_options --enable-official-branding ac_add_options --with-pthreads ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg ac_add_options --with-system-png ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo ac_add_options --with-system-zlib ac_add_options --enable-shared ac_add_options --disable-static ac_add_options --disable-debug ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter ac_add_options --disable-installer ac_add_options --disable-updater ac_add_options --disable-tests EOF
Compile Thunderbird by issuing the following commands:
make -f client.mk && make -C thunderbuild/mail/installer
This package does not come with a test suite.
Install Thunderbird by running the
following commands as the root
user:
mkdir -p /usr/lib/thunderbird-9.0.1 && tar xf thunderbuild/mozilla/dist/thunderbird-*.tar.bz2 -C /usr/lib/thunderbird-9.0.1 --strip-components=1 && ln -s ../lib/thunderbird-9.0.1/thunderbird /usr/bin/thunderbird
make -f client.mk:
Mozilla products are packaged to allow the use of a configuration
file which can be used to pass the configuration settings to the
configure command.
make uses the
client.mk file to get initial
configuration and setup parameters.
make -C
thunderbuild/mail/installer: this runs make in the
thunderbuild/mail/installer folder.
This gathers together all the parts of Thunderbird and compresses them into a
tarball.
tar -xfv thunderbuild/mozilla/dist
...: This untars Thunderbird, the -C option uncompresses the files in
/usr/lib/thunderbird-9.0.1. The --strip-components=1 option removes the leading
'thunderbird' directory from the filenames, allowing us to untar it
into a versioned directory.
If your Window or Desktop Manager does not allow you to configure a default browser, you can add a configuration parameter to Thunderbird 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.
First, open the configuration dialog by opening the “Edit” drop-down menu. Choose “Preferences” and then click on the “Advanced” icon on the top menu bar. Choose the “General” tab and click on the “Config Editor” button. This will display a list of the configuration preferences and information related to each one. You can use the “Filter:” 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 “Modify” from the menu and change the value. Creating new preference items is accomplished in the same way, except choose “New” from the menu and provide the desired data into the fields when prompted.
The configuration preference item you need to check so that
Thunderbird uses a specified
browser is the network.protocol-handler.app.http
which should be set to the path of the desired browser, e.g.,
/usr/bin/firefox.
![[Tip]](../images/tip.png)
There is a multitude of configuration parameters you can tweak to customize Thunderbird. A very extensive, but not so up-to-date list of these parameters can be found at http://preferential.mozdev.org/preferences.html.
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Last updated on 2012-01-16 14:56:53 +0000