source: xsoft/graphweb/seamonkey.xml@ 8ccec7df

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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        "5fd91a88005c2cc2a3ba4addfb5ff35e">
  <!ENTITY seamonkey-size          "254 MB">
  <!ENTITY seamonkey-buildsize     "4.4 GB (159 MB installed)">
  <!ENTITY seamonkey-time          "11 SBU (with parallelism=4)">
]>

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


  <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, a descendant
      of <application>Netscape</application>. It includes the browser,
      composer, mail and news clients, and an IRC client.
    </para>

    <para>
      It is the community-driven follow-on to the Mozilla Application Suite,
      created after Mozilla decided to focus on separate applications for
      browsing and e-mail. Those applications are
      <xref linkend="firefox"/> and <xref linkend="thunderbird"/>.
    </para>

    &lfs120_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:
          <ulink url="&patch-root;/seamonkey-&seamonkey-version;-upstream_fixes-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"/>,
      <xref linkend="cbindgen"/>,
      <xref linkend="gtk3"/>,
      <xref linkend="nodejs"/>,
      <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="libwebp"/>,
      <xref linkend="llvm"/> (with clang),
      <xref linkend="nasm"/>,
      <xref linkend="nspr"/>,
      <xref linkend="nss"/>, and
      <xref linkend="pulseaudio"/>
      <!-- <xref linkend="sqlite"/> system version no longer supported -->
    </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>

    <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"/>, Not seen in logs -->
      <xref linkend="startup-notification"/>,
      <xref linkend="valgrind"/>,
      <xref linkend="wget"/>,
      <xref linkend="wireless_tools"/>,
      <ulink url="https://hunspell.sourceforge.net/">Hunspell</ulink>, and
      <ulink url="https://facebook.github.io/watchman/">Watchman</ulink>
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
      Editor 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

# 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
<!-- comments cause a blank line, following was for icu in the past
     seems OK with icu-60, seamonkey-2.49
     line below was with comment and explanation
# Use the internal version of icu due to execution problems-->
# Comment out following options if you have not installed
# recommended dependencies:
ac_add_options --with-system-icu
ac_add_options --with-system-libevent
ac_add_options --with-system-nspr
ac_add_options --with-system-nss
ac_add_options --with-system-webp

# Disabling debug symbols makes the build much smaller and a little
# faster. Comment this if you need to run a debugger. Note: This is
# required for compilation on i686.
ac_add_options --disable-debug-symbols

# The elf-hack is reported to cause failed installs (after successful builds)
# on some machines. It is supposed to improve startup time and it shrinks
# libxul.so by a few MB - comment this if you know your machine is not affected.
ac_add_options --disable-elf-hack

# Seamonkey has some additional features that are not turned on by default,
# such as an IRC client, calendar, and DOM Inspector. The DOM Inspector
# aids with designing web pages. Comment these options if you do not
# desire these features.
ac_add_options --enable-calendar
ac_add_options --enable-dominspector
ac_add_options --enable-irc

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

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

# rust-simd does not compile with recent versions of rust.
# It is disabled in recent versions of firefox
ac_add_options --disable-rust-simd

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

# The option to use system cairo was removed in 2.53.9.
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>

    <note>
      <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
       href="../../xincludes/mozshm.xml"/>
      <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
       href="../../xincludes/mozmach.xml"/>
    </note>

<!--
    <para>
      First remove an obsolete flag in python code, that has been removed
      in python-3.11:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>grep -rl \'rU\' | xargs sed -i "s/'rU'/'r'/"</userinput></screen>
-->
<!--
    <para>
      Next, work around a problem in the Python virtual environment:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>sed -i "/if sys.executable !=/i\    open(join(bin_dir, 'pyvenv.cfg'), 'w').close()" \
    third_party/python/virtualenv/virtualenv.py</userinput></screen>
-->

    <para>
      Fix a problem with the bundled 'distro' python module:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>sed -e '1012 s/stderr=devnull/stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL/' \
    -e '1013 s/OSError/(OSError, subprocess.CalledProcessError)/' \
    -i third_party/python/distro/distro.py</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Compile <application>SeaMonkey</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>export CC=clang CXX=clang++          &amp;&amp;
./mach configure &amp;&amp;
./mach build</userinput></screen>


    <!-- comment this since llvm must have been installed for rust
    <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>./mach install                  &amp;&amp;
chown -R 0:0 /usr/lib/seamonkey &amp;&amp;

cp -v $(find -name seamonkey.1 | head -n1) /usr/share/man/man1</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <command>export CC=clang CXX=clang++</command>:
      With the introduction of <application>gcc-12</application>, many
      more warnings are generated when compiling mozilla applications
      and that results in a much slower, and larger, build. Furthermore,
      building with GCC on i?86 is currently broken.
      Although upstream mozilla code defaults to using
      <application>llvm</application> unless overridden, the older configure
      code in <application>SeaMonkey</application> defaults to gcc.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>./mach configure</command>: This validates
      the supplied dependencies and the <filename>mozconfig</filename>.
      <!--This is run twice because problems with mach will cause it to fail the
      first time.-->
    </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. But do not add '--verbose' to the install command,
      it is not accepted there.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>./mach build -jN</option>: The build should, by default, use
      all the online CPU cores. If using all the cores causes the build to swap
      because you have insufficient memory, using fewer cores can be faster.
    </para>

  </sect2>

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

    <para>
      For installing various <application>SeaMonkey</application> add-ons, refer
      to <ulink url="https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/seamonkey/">Add-ons
      for Seamonkey</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>Search:</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>

<!-- The URL no longer exists.
    <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/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</filename>
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/lib/seamonkey
        </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>