source: xsoft/graphweb/seamonkey.xml@ 7226770c

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY seamonkey-download-http "&mozilla-http;/seamonkey/releases/&seamonkey-version;/source/seamonkey-&seamonkey-version;.source.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY seamonkey-download-ftp " ">
  <!ENTITY seamonkey-md5sum        "0cb5b34ea2194ec1a7e48ba21049cf35">
  <!ENTITY seamonkey-size          "277 MB">
  <!ENTITY seamonkey-buildsize     "6.9 GB (154 MB installed)">
  <!ENTITY seamonkey-time          "19 SBU (on a 4-core machine)">
]>

<sect1 id="seamonkey" xreflabel="SeaMonkey-&seamonkey-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="seamonkey.html" ?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>SeaMonkey-&seamonkey-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="seamonkey">
    <primary sortas="a-SeaMonkey">SeaMonkey</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to SeaMonkey</title>

    <para>
      <application>SeaMonkey</application> is a browser suite, the Open Source
      sibling of <application>Netscape</application>. It includes the browser,
      composer, mail and news clients, and an IRC client. It is the follow-on
      to the Mozilla browser suite.
    </para>

    <para>
      The Mozilla project also hosts two subprojects that aim to satisfy the
      needs of users who don't need the complete browser suite or prefer to have
      separate applications for browsing and e-mail. These subprojects are
      <xref linkend="firefox"/> and <xref linkend="thunderbird"/>. Both are
      based on the <application>Mozilla</application> source code.
    </para>

    &lfs91_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&seamonkey-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&seamonkey-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &seamonkey-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &seamonkey-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &seamonkey-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &seamonkey-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
<!--
    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Required patch if using gcc-6 or later
          <ulink url="&patch-root;/seamonkey-&seamonkey-version;-gcc6-1.patch"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
-->
    <note>
      <para>
        The tarball
        <emphasis>seamonkey-&seamonkey-version;.source.tar.xz</emphasis> will
        untar to <emphasis>seamonkey-&seamonkey-version;</emphasis> directory.
      </para>
    </note>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">SeaMonkey Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="autoconf213"/>,
      both <xref linkend="gtk2"/> and <xref linkend="gtk3"/>,
      <xref linkend="rust"/>,
      <xref linkend="unzip"/>, 
      <xref linkend="yasm"/>, and 
      <xref linkend="zip"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="icu"/>,
      <xref linkend="libevent"/>,
      <!--<xref linkend="libvpx"/>, Causes build failures similar to Firefox -->
      <xref linkend="nspr"/>, 
      <xref linkend="nss"/>,
      <xref linkend="pulseaudio"/>, and
      <xref linkend="sqlite"/>
    </para>
<!--
    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="sqlite"/> (not recommended due to potential
      security concerns)
    </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>
<!--
    <note>
      <para>
        You must have installed <application>Openssl</application> before
        <application>Python 2</application> or the build system will quickly
        fail with output including "ImportError: cannot import name
        HTTPSHandler". If you are in any doubt about this (e.g. upgrading from
        an older version of Seamonkey), check if
        <filename>/usr/lib/python&python2-majorver;/lib-dynload/_ssl.so</filename>
        exists.  If it does not, reinstall <xref linkend="python2"/> (after
        installing <xref linkend="openssl"/>.  The latest version of any
        <emphasis>currently maintained</emphasis> version of Openssl should be
        satisfactory if already installed.
      </para>
    </note>
-->
    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="alsa-lib"/>,
      <xref linkend="curl"/>,
      <xref linkend="dbus-glib"/>,
      <xref linkend="doxygen"/>,
      <xref linkend="GConf"/>,
      <xref linkend="gst10-plugins-base"/> (and other plugins, only for tests),
      <xref linkend="openjdk"/>,
      <xref linkend="startup-notification"/>,
      <xref linkend="valgrind"/>,
      <xref linkend="wget"/>,
      <xref linkend="wireless_tools"/>, and
      <ulink url="http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/">Hunspell</ulink>
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
      User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/seamonkey"/>
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of SeaMonkey</title>

    <para>
      The configuration of <application>SeaMonkey</application> is accomplished
      by creating a <filename>mozconfig</filename> file containing the desired
      configuration options. A default <filename>mozconfig</filename> file is
      created below. To see the entire list of available configuration options
      (and an abbreviated description of each one), issue
      <command>./configure --help</command>. You may also wish to review the
      entire file and uncomment any other desired options. Create the file by
      issuing the following command:
    </para>

<screen><?dbfo keep-together="auto"?><userinput>cat &gt; mozconfig &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal># If you have a multicore machine, all cores will be used by default.
# If desired, you can reduce the number of cores used, e.g. to 1, by
# uncommenting the next line and setting a valid number of CPU cores.
#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 dbus-glib, and you have installed (or will install)
# wireless-tools, and you wish to use geolocation web services, comment out
# this line
ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi

# Uncomment these lines if you have installed optional dependencies:
#ac_add_options --enable-system-hunspell
#ac_add_options --enable-startup-notification

# Uncomment the following option if you have not installed PulseAudio
#ac_add_options --disable-pulseaudio
# and uncomment this if you installed alsa-lib instead of PulseAudio
#ac_add_options --enable-alsa

# Comment out following option if you have gconf installed
ac_add_options --disable-gconf

# 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
<!-- seems OK with icu-60, seamonkey-2.49
# Use the internal version of icu due to execution problems-->

# The BLFS editors recommend not changing anything below this line:
ac_add_options --prefix=/usr
ac_add_options --enable-application=suite

ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter
ac_add_options --disable-updater
ac_add_options --disable-tests

ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-O2"
ac_add_options --enable-strip
ac_add_options --enable-install-strip

# not recognized since 2.53.1 - ac_add_options --enable-gio
ac_add_options --enable-official-branding
# not recognized since 2.53.1 - ac_add_options --enable-safe-browsing
# not recognized since 2.53.1 - ac_add_options --enable-url-classifier

# From firefox-40 (and the corresponding version of seamonkey),
# using system cairo caused seamonkey to crash
# frequently when it was doing background rendering in a tab.
# This appears to again work in seamonkey-2.49.2
ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo
ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi
ac_add_options --enable-system-pixman

ac_add_options --with-pthreads

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>

    <note><para>
      If you are compiling <application>SeaMonkey</application> in chroot, make
      sure you have the <envar>SHELL</envar> environment variable set or prepend
      <envar>SHELL=/bin/sh</envar> to the first make command below.
    </para></note>

    <!--
    <para>
      <application>GCC-9</application> generates some false positives with
      <command>-Werror=format</command>, which prevent building
      <application>SeaMonkey</application>. Remove this flag with the
      following command:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>grep -rl - - '-Werror=format' | xargs sed -i 's/error=format/no-&amp;/'</userinput></screen>
    Does not seem to be needed anymore with 2.53.1 -renodr -->

    <para>
      Remove a function definition, which is incompatible with the one in
      glibc-2.30:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>sed -i -e '/pid_t gettid/,+3 s@^@//@' mozilla/tools/profiler/core/platform.h</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      No adapt the code for a change introduced in rustc-1.39.0:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>sed -i '/deny(warnings)/d' mozilla/xpcom/rust/nsstring/src/lib.rs</userinput></screen>

    <!-- Doesn't seem to be needed anymore with 2.53.1
    <para>
      Remove a search for an unneeded library:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>sed -i '/USE_LIBS/,+2 s/^/#/' mozilla/security/manager/ssl/moz.build</userinput></screen>
    -->
    <!--
    <para>
      Remove some unneeded files not removed during the release process:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>rm -rf .git mozilla/.git</userinput></screen>
    -->
    <para>
      Compile <application>SeaMonkey</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>CC=gcc CXX=g++ make -f client.mk</userinput></screen>

    <note>
      <para>
        The CC and CXX variables above are only needed if 
        <xref linkend="llvm"/> is installed and you do not want to use clang.
      </para>
    </note>

    <para>
      This package does not come with a test suite.
    </para>

    <para>
      Install <application>SeaMonkey</application> by issuing the following
      commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>


<screen role="root"><userinput>make  -f client.mk install INSTALL_SDK= &amp;&amp;
chown -R 0:0 /usr/lib/seamonkey-&seamonkey-version;    &amp;&amp;

cp -v $(find -name seamonkey.1 | head -n1) /usr/share/man/man1</userinput></screen>
<!-- Not needed: see above
    <para>
      Set the compilation flags back to their original values:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>export CFLAGS=$CFLAGS_HOLD     &amp;&amp;
export CXXFLAGS=$CXXFLAGS_HOLD &amp;&amp;
unset CFLAGS_HOLD CXXFLAGS_HOLD</userinput></screen>
-->
<!--
    <bridgehead renderas="sect3" id="devel-seamonkey" xreflabel="SeaMonkey">
      All the Development Libraries and Headers
    </bridgehead>

    <para>
      If you want to install the full <application>SeaMonkey</application>
      development environment, as the
      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="nodump"><userinput>make -C obj* install</userinput></screen>

    <note>
      <para>
        The build directory is set by the make procedure and is dependent on
        the system architecture, but the directory name starts with 'obj'.
      </para>
    </note>
       Does not seem to be valid with 2.53.1-->
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>
<!--
    <para>
      <command>export CFLAGS= ... export CXXFLAGS= ...</command>: These
      settings work around code which gcc6 and later would otherwise regard as
      out-of-specification and allow it to produce a working program.
    </para>
-->
    <para>
      <command>sed -i '/deny(warnings)/d' ...</command> : rust-1.39 deprecated
      the "try!" call in favour of "?" which causes warnings, nsstring was
      treating warnings as errors.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>make -f client.mk</command>: Mozilla products are packaged to
      allow the use of a configuration file which can be used to pass the
      configuration settings to the <command>configure</command> command.
      <command>make</command> uses the <filename>client.mk</filename> file to
      get initial configuration and setup parameters.
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring SeaMonkey</title>

    <para>
      For installing various <application>SeaMonkey</application> plugins, refer
      to <ulink url="http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html">Mozdev's PluginDoc
      Project</ulink>.
    </para>

    <para>
      Along with using the <quote>Preferences</quote> menu to configure
      <application>SeaMonkey</application>'s options and preferences to suit
      individual tastes, finer grain control of many options is only available
      using a tool not available from the general menu system. To access this
      tool, you'll need to open a browser window and enter
      <systemitem role="url">about:config</systemitem> in the address bar. 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>

    <tip>
      <para>
        There is a multitude of configuration parameters you can tweak to
        customize <application>SeaMonkey</application>. A very extensive 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 like <application>Gnome</application> or
      <application>KDE</application> you may wish to create a
      <filename>seamonkey.desktop</filename> file so that
      <application>SeaMonkey</application> appears in the panel's menus. If you
      didn't enable <application>Startup-Notification</application> in your
      mozconfig change the StartupNotify line to false. 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/seamonkey.desktop &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal>[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=SeaMonkey
Comment=The Mozilla Suite
Icon=seamonkey
Exec=seamonkey
Categories=Network;GTK;Application;Email;Browser;WebBrowser;News;
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false</literal>
EOF

ln -sfv /usr/lib/seamonkey-&seamonkey-version;/chrome/icons/default/default128.png \
        /usr/share/pixmaps/seamonkey.png</userinput></screen>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>seamonkey</seg>
        <seg>
          Numerous libraries, browser, and email/newsgroup components, plugins,
          extensions, and helper modules installed in <filename
          class="directory">/usr/lib/seamonkey-&seamonkey-version;</filename>
        </seg>
        <seg>
      <!--/usr/include/seamonkey-&seamonkey-version; (optional),-->
          /usr/lib/seamonkey-&seamonkey-version;
      <!--/usr/lib/seamonkey-devel-&seamonkey-version; (optional), and
          /usr/share/idl/seamonkey-&seamonkey-version; (optional)-->
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="seamonkey-prog">
        <term><command>seamonkey</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the Mozilla browser/email/newsgroup/chat client suite.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="seamonkey seamonkey-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-seamonkey">seamonkey</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </sect2>
</sect1>