Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 22:21:55 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: jd1008 <jd1008@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Users <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Building TB from source code Message-ID: <44y4in1lj0.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <55A07665.6090600@gmail.com> (jd's message of "Fri, 10 Jul 2015 19:50:29 -0600") References: <55A03950.6090209@gmail.com> <44h9pb39kw.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <55A07665.6090600@gmail.com>
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jd1008 <jd1008@gmail.com> writes: > On 07/10/2015 04:57 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> jd1008 <jd1008@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> 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. >> Use the port? I always build it through the port. >> >>> I posted the same question to Fedora list and it has been >>> so totally ignored, that I find it very interesting. >> Does Fedora have a ports system? >> > I have tried to download all the sources from mozilla. > I followed all the steps of building. > At every step I would get an error that certain versions of some > package(s) was/were needed; and such versions were too darned > old for me to burden my machine with, as my machine had much > more recent versions. This is why the ports system exists. I recommend you use it to build thunderbird. If you think there is a good reason that the ports system won't handle your situation, please explain what that reason is.
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