source: xsoft/other/thunderbird.xml@ 34484cf

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

  <!ENTITY thunderbird-download-http "&mozilla-http;/thunderbird/releases/&thunderbird-version;/source/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;.source.tar.xz">
<!--  <!ENTITY thunderbird-download-ftp "&mozilla-ftp;/thunderbird/releases/&thunderbird-version;/source/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;.source.tar.xz">-->
  <!ENTITY thunderbird-download-ftp " ">
  <!ENTITY thunderbird-md5sum            "ac8bc081c601c96d683b94c79abda114">
  <!ENTITY thunderbird-size              "192 MB">
  <!ENTITY thunderbird-buildsize         "3.6 GB (86 MB installed)">
  <!ENTITY thunderbird-time              "15 SBU (with -j4, estimated 36 SBU with -j1)">
]>

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

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

  <title>Thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="thunderbird">
    <primary sortas="a-Thunderbird">Thunderbird</primary>
  </indexterm>

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

    <para>
      <application>Thunderbird</application> is a stand-alone mail/news client
      based on the <application>Mozilla</application> codebase. It uses the
      Gecko rendering engine to enable it to display and compose HTML emails.
    </para>

    &lfs7a_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&thunderbird-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&thunderbird-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &thunderbird-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &thunderbird-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &thunderbird-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &thunderbird-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

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

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="alsa-lib"/>,
      <xref linkend="gtk2"/>,
      <xref linkend="zip"/>,
      <xref linkend="unzip"/>, and
      <xref linkend="yasm"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="libevent"/>,
      <xref linkend="libvpx"/>,
      <xref linkend="nspr"/>, and
      <xref linkend="nss"/><!-- , and
      <xref linkend="sqlite"/>
      Do not use system SQLite until TB-48/52 because it uses insecure 
      routines (FTS3) that are not built in BLFS -->
    </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>
        With <application>Thunderbird-31.0</application> and later versions,
        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 Thunderbird), 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 - if that package has not already
        been installed).
      </para>
    </note>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="curl"/>,
      <xref linkend="cyrus-sasl"/>,
      <xref linkend="dbus-glib"/>,
      <xref linkend="doxygen"/>,
      <xref linkend="GConf"/>,
      <xref linkend="gst10-plugins-base"/> (with
      <xref linkend="gst10-plugins-good"/> and
      <xref linkend="gst10-libav"/> at runtime),
      <xref linkend="llvm"/>,
      <xref linkend="openjdk"/>,
      <xref linkend="pulseaudio"/>,
      <xref linkend="sqlite"/> (not recommended due to potential
      security concerns),
      <xref linkend="startup-notification"/>,
      <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;/Thunderbird"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

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

    <para>
      The configuration of <application>Thunderbird</application> is
      accomplished by creating a <filename>mozconfig</filename> file containing
      the desired configuration options. A default
      <filename>mozconfig</filename> is created below. To see the entire list
      of available configuration options (and a brief description of each),
      issue <command>mozilla/configure --help</command>. Create the file with
      the following command:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>cat &gt; mozconfig &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal># If you have a multicore machine, the build may be faster if using parallel
# jobs. The build system automatically adds -jN to the "make" flags, where N
# is the number of CPU cores. The option below is therefore useless, unless
# you want to use a smaller number of jobs:
#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 wireless-tools comment out this line:
ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi

# GStreamer is necessary for H.264 video playback in HTML5 Video Player;
# to be enabled, also remember to set "media.gstreamer.enabled" to "true"
# in about:config. If you have GStreamer 1.x.y, comment out this line and
# uncomment the following one:
ac_add_options --disable-gstreamer
#ac_add_options --enable-gstreamer=1.0

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

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

# Comment out following option if you have gconf installed
ac_add_options --disable-gconf
<!-- Uncommenting does not work
# If you have not installed Yasm then uncomment this line:
#ac_add_options - -disable-webm
-->
# If you want to compile the Mozilla Calendar, uncomment this line:
#ac_add_options --enable-calendar

# Comment out following options if you have not installed
# recommended dependencies:
# Do not use system SQLite for Thunderbird 45.x
#ac_add_options --enable-system-sqlite
ac_add_options --with-system-libevent
ac_add_options --with-system-libvpx
ac_add_options --with-system-nspr
ac_add_options --with-system-nss
ac_add_options --with-system-icu

# Set CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS to prevent segfaults due to agressive
# optimizations in GCC-6:
export CFLAGS+=" -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -fno-lifetime-dse -fno-schedule-insns2"
export CXXFLAGS+=" -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -fno-lifetime-dse -fno-schedule-insns2"

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

ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter
ac_add_options --disable-installer
ac_add_options --disable-updater
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --disable-tests

ac_add_options --enable-optimize
ac_add_options --enable-strip
ac_add_options --enable-install-strip

ac_add_options --enable-gio
ac_add_options --enable-official-branding
ac_add_options --enable-safe-browsing
ac_add_options --enable-url-classifier

# Use internal cairo due to reports of unstable execution with
# system cairo
#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>

<!-- might be necessary
test $(uname -m) = "i686" && sed -i 's/enable-optimize/disable-optimize/' mozconfig || true &&-->

    <para>
      Compile <application>Thunderbird</application> by issuing the following
      commands:
    </para>

    <note><para>
      If you are compiling <application>Thunderbird</application> in chroot,
      prepend <envar>SHELL=/bin/sh</envar> to the make command below.
    </para></note>

<screen><userinput>sed -e '/#include/i\
    print OUT "#define _GLIBCXX_INCLUDE_NEXT_C_HEADERS\\n"\;' \
    -i mozilla/nsprpub/config/make-system-wrappers.pl &amp;&amp;

sed -e '/#include/a\
    print OUT "#undef _GLIBCXX_INCLUDE_NEXT_C_HEADERS\\n"\;' \
    -i mozilla/nsprpub/config/make-system-wrappers.pl &amp;&amp;

make -f client.mk</userinput></screen>

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

    <para>
      Install <application>Thunderbird</application> by running 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/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;</userinput></screen>

<!-- thunderbuild directory does not exist anymore. Leaving as comment,
in case an editor figures out how to install the development environment.
    <para>
      The above instruction just installs the parts you need to run
      <application>Thunderbird</application>. Alternatively, if you want to
      install the full <application>Thunderbird</application> development
      environment, run the following command as the
      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make -C thunderbuild install</userinput></screen>
-->
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>
<!-- might be necessary
    <para>
      <command>test $(uname -m) = "i686" &amp;&amp; sed ...</command>: On this
      version of thunderbird, an old bug has reappeared in 32-bit builds.  With
      optimization, the install fails with a Python error.  This command will
      fix i686 builds and preserve the optimization on x86_64.
    </para>-->

    <para>
      <command>sed ...</command>: These commands correct the source to be
      compatible with gcc6 by preventing c++ scope errors.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>export CFLAGS= ... export CXXFLAGS= ...</command>: These
      settings work around code which gcc6 would otherwise regard as
      out-of-specification and allow it to produce a working program.
    </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 Thunderbird</title>

    <sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>

      <para>
        If your Window or Desktop Manager does not allow you to configure a
        default browser, you can add a configuration parameter to
        <application>Thunderbird</application> 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.
      </para>

      <para>
        First, open the configuration dialog by opening the <quote>Edit</quote>
        drop-down menu. Choose <quote>Preferences</quote> and then click on the
        <quote>Advanced</quote> icon on the top menu bar. Choose the
        <quote>General</quote> tab and click on the <quote>Config Editor</quote>
        button. 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>

      <para>
        The configuration preference item you need to check so that
        <application>Thunderbird</application> uses a specified browser is the
        <parameter>network.protocol-handler.app.http</parameter> which should be
        set to the path of the desired browser, e.g.
        <option>/usr/bin/firefox</option>.
      </para>

      <tip>
        <para>
          There is a multitude of configuration parameters you can tweak to
          customize <application>Thunderbird</application>. A very extensive,
          but not so up-to-date 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 such as <application>GNOME</application>
      or <application>KDE</application>, a desktop file
      <filename>thunderbird.desktop</filename> may be created, in order to
      include a <quote><application>Thunderbird</application></quote> entry in
      the menu. If you didn't enable
      <application>startup-notification</application> in your mozconfig, then
      change the StartupNotify line to false. Run the following commands 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/thunderbird.desktop &lt;&lt; "EOF" &amp;&amp;
<literal>[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Thunderbird Mail
Comment=Send and receive mail with Thunderbird
GenericName=Mail Client
Exec=thunderbird %u
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=thunderbird
Categories=Application;Network;Email;
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/rss+xml;x-scheme-handler/mailto;
StartupNotify=true</literal>
EOF

ln -sfv /usr/lib/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;/chrome/icons/default/default256.png \
        /usr/share/pixmaps/thunderbird.png</userinput></screen>
    </sect3>
  </sect2>

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

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

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          thunderbird
        </seg>
        <seg>
          None
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/lib/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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

      <varlistentry id="thunderbird-prog">
        <term><command>thunderbird</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is <application>Mozilla</application>'s email and newsgroup client.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="thunderbird thunderbird-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-thunderbird">thunderbird</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>