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Update to thunderbird-115.8.0 (Security Update).

And a few minor text corrections.

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
7 <!ENTITY thunderbird-download-http "&mozilla-http;/thunderbird/releases/&thunderbird-version;/source/thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;.source.tar.xz">
8 <!ENTITY thunderbird-download-ftp " ">
9 <!ENTITY thunderbird-md5sum "00100df1feb11016fed632db29fbcfb8">
10 <!ENTITY thunderbird-size "516 MB">
11 <!ENTITY thunderbird-buildsize "6.4 GB (229 MB installed)">
12 <!ENTITY thunderbird-time "12 SBU (on a 8-core machine)">
13 <!-- Removed the -j1 time because python and rust do not obey it, although
14 the C/C++ code appears to obey it.
15
16 Version 102.3.3: I disabled all but 4 cores. SBU was 20 (2019 seconds)
17 -->
18]>
19
20<sect1 id="thunderbird" xreflabel="Thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;">
21 <?dbhtml filename="thunderbird.html" ?>
22
23
24 <title>Thunderbird-&thunderbird-version;</title>
25
26 <indexterm zone="thunderbird">
27 <primary sortas="a-Thunderbird">Thunderbird</primary>
28 </indexterm>
29
30 <sect2 role="package">
31 <title>Introduction to Thunderbird</title>
32
33 <para>
34 <application>Thunderbird</application> is a stand-alone mail/news client
35 based on the <application>Mozilla</application> codebase. It uses the
36 Gecko rendering engine to enable it to display and compose HTML emails.
37 </para>
38
39 &lfs121_checked;
40
41 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
42 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
43 <listitem>
44 <para>
45 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&thunderbird-download-http;"/>
46 </para>
47 </listitem>
48 <listitem>
49 <para>
50 Download (FTP): <ulink url="&thunderbird-download-ftp;"/>
51 </para>
52 </listitem>
53 <listitem>
54 <para>
55 Download MD5 sum: &thunderbird-md5sum;
56 </para>
57 </listitem>
58 <listitem>
59 <para>
60 Download size: &thunderbird-size;
61 </para>
62 </listitem>
63 <listitem>
64 <para>
65 Estimated disk space required: &thunderbird-buildsize;
66 </para>
67 </listitem>
68 <listitem>
69 <para>
70 Estimated build time: &thunderbird-time;
71 </para>
72 </listitem>
73 </itemizedlist>
74
75
76 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Thunderbird Dependencies</bridgehead>
77
78 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
79 <para role="required">
80 <xref linkend="cbindgen"/>,
81 <xref linkend="dbus-glib"/>,
82 <xref linkend="gtk3"/>,
83 <xref linkend="llvm"/> including clang, <!-- used by default if found -->
84 <xref linkend="nodejs"/>,
85 <xref linkend="pulseaudio"/> (or <xref linkend="alsa-lib"/> if you edit
86 the mozconfig; although it is now deprecated by mozilla),
87 <xref linkend="python311"/> (rebuilt with the sqlite module),
88 <xref linkend="startup-notification"/>, and
89 <xref linkend="unzip"/>
90 <!--<xref linkend="yasm"/>-->
91 </para>
92
93 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
94 <para role="recommended">
95 <!-- When using system ICU, a problem occurs where the calendar and mail
96 functions do not render correctly and it causes other strange
97 behavior to occur. See Ticket #18323 for more details, as well as
98 https://lore.kernel.org/distributions/075a20b1-869b-78f3-9ace-e106a4d43ac4@linuxlounge.net/T/#u -->
99 <!--<xref linkend="icu"/>,-->
100 <xref linkend="libevent"/>,
101 <xref linkend="libvpx"/>,
102 <xref linkend="libwebp"/>,
103 <xref linkend="nasm"/>,
104 <xref linkend="nspr"/>, and
105 <xref linkend="nss"/>
106 </para>
107
108 <note>
109 <para>
110 If you don't install recommended dependencies,
111 then internal copies of those packages will
112 be used. They might be tested to work, but
113 they can be out of date or contain security
114 holes.
115 </para>
116 </note>
117
118 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
119 <para role="optional">
120 <xref role="runtime" linkend="pciutils"/> (runtime),
121 <xref linkend="wget"/>,
122 <xref linkend="wireless_tools"/>, and
123 <ulink url="https://facebook.github.io/watchman/">watchman</ulink>
124 </para>
125
126 </sect2>
127
128 <sect2 role="installation">
129 <title>Installation of Thunderbird</title>
130
131 <note>
132 <para>
133 The build process for Thunderbird can use 8GB+ of RAM when linking.
134 Make sure that you have adequate swap or RAM before continuing.
135 </para>
136 </note>
137
138 <!-- Restore after Python 3.12 is usable for this package again
139 <para>
140 The building system ships several internal copies of the Python 3
141 modules <application>setuptools</application> and
142 <filename>six.py</filename>. The shipped copies are too old
143 to work well with Python 3.12 or later. Replace them with the
144 symlinks to the LFS <application>setuptools</application> package and
145 <xref linkend='six'/> already installed on the system, and adapt the
146 building system for these updated Python modules. We also need to
147 rewrite the code based on the <filename>imp</filename> module removed
148 in Python 3.12 and later using the <filename>importlib</filename>
149 module:
150 </para>
151
152<screen><userinput>(for i in $(find -name six.py); do
153 ln -sfv /usr/lib/python&python3-majorver;/site-packages/six.py $i
154 [ $? = 0 ] || exit $?
155 done) &amp;&amp;
156
157sed '/ConfigParser/s/Safe//' \
158 -i testing/mozbase/mozprofile/mozprofile/prefs.py &amp;&amp;
159
160(for i in setuptools distutils-precedence.pth \
161 pkg_resources _distutils_hack; do
162 rm -rf third_party/python/setuptools/$i &amp;&amp;
163 ln -sv /usr/lib/python&python3-majorver;/site-packages/$i \
164 third_party/python/setuptools
165 [ $? = 0 ] || exit $?
166 done) &amp;&amp;
167
168sed 's/distutils/setuptools._&amp;/' \
169 -i python/mozbuild/mozbuild/nodeutil.py &amp;&amp;
170
171sed -e '/^import/s/imp$/importlib.util/' \
172 -e 's/imp.new_module/__import__/' \
173 -e "s/imp.load_source\(.*\)/spec = \
174 importlib.util.spec_from_file_location\1; \
175 mod = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec); \
176 spec.loader.exec_module(mod)/" -i python/mach/mach/main.py &amp;&amp;
177sed '/import imp/d' -i netwerk/dns/prepare_tlds.py
178</userinput></screen>
179-->
180
181 <para>
182 The configuration of <application>Thunderbird</application> is
183 accomplished by creating a <filename>mozconfig</filename> file containing
184 the desired configuration options. A default
185 <filename>mozconfig</filename> is created below. To see the entire list
186 of available configuration options (and a brief description of each),
187 issue <command>./mach configure -- --help | less</command>. Create the file with
188 the following command:
189 </para>
190
191<screen><userinput>cat &gt; mozconfig &lt;&lt; "EOF"
192<literal># If you have a multicore machine, all cores will be used.
193
194# If you have installed wireless-tools comment out this line:
195ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi
196
197# Uncomment the following option if you have not installed PulseAudio
198#ac_add_options --enable-audio-backends=alsa
199
200# Comment out following options if you have not installed
201# recommended dependencies:
202ac_add_options --with-system-libevent
203ac_add_options --with-system-libvpx
204ac_add_options --with-system-nspr
205ac_add_options --with-system-nss
206ac_add_options --with-system-webp
207<!-- With Thunderbird ESR 128 we'd replace the following part with
208"- -enable-elf-hack=relr", or remove it if relr becomes the default. -->
209# on some machines. It is supposed to improve startup time and it shrinks
210# libxul.so by a few MB. With recent Binutils releases the linker already
211# supports a much safer and generic way for this.
212ac_add_options --disable-elf-hack
213export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -Wl,-z,pack-relative-relocs"
214
215# The BLFS editors recommend not changing anything below this line:
216ac_add_options --prefix=/usr
217ac_add_options --enable-application=comm/mail
218
219ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter
220ac_add_options --disable-updater
221ac_add_options --disable-debug
222ac_add_options --disable-debug-symbols
223ac_add_options --disable-tests
224
225# This enables SIMD optimization in the shipped encoding_rs crate.
226ac_add_options --enable-rust-simd
227
228ac_add_options --enable-strip
229ac_add_options --enable-install-strip
230
231# You cannot distribute the binary if you do this.
232ac_add_options --enable-official-branding
233
234ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi
235ac_add_options --enable-system-pixman
236
237ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg
238ac_add_options --with-system-png
239ac_add_options --with-system-zlib
240
241# Using sandboxed wasm libraries has been moved to all builds instead
242# of only mozilla automation builds. It requires extra llvm packages
243# and was reported to seriously slow the build. Disable it.
244ac_add_options --without-wasm-sandboxed-libraries</literal>
245EOF</userinput></screen>
246
247 <para>
248 Now invoke the Python <command>mach</command> script to compile
249 <application>Thunderbird</application>:
250 </para>
251
252 <note>
253 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
254 href="../../xincludes/mozshm.xml"/>
255 </note>
256
257<screen><userinput>export MACH_BUILD_PYTHON_NATIVE_PACKAGE_SOURCE=none &amp;&amp;
258export MOZBUILD_STATE_PATH=./mozbuild &amp;&amp;
259export PYTHON311=/opt/python3.11/bin/python3.11 &amp;&amp;
260$PYTHON311 ./mach build</userinput></screen>
261
262 <para>
263 This package does not come with a test suite.
264 </para>
265
266 <para>
267 Install <application>Thunderbird</application> by running the following
268 commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
269 </para>
270
271<screen role="root"><userinput>MACH_BUILD_PYTHON_NATIVE_PACKAGE_SOURCE=none $PYTHON311 ./mach install</userinput></screen>
272<!-- devs: For DESTDIR install, prepend DESTDIR=<dest> to the above -->
273
274 <para>
275 Empty the environment variables which were set above:
276 </para>
277
278<screen><userinput>unset MACH_BUILD_PYTHON_NATIVE_PACKAGE_SOURCE &amp;&amp;
279unset MOZBUILD_STATE_PATH &amp;&amp;
280unset PYTHON311</userinput></screen>
281
282 </sect2>
283
284 <sect2 role="commands">
285 <title>Command Explanations</title>
286
287 <para>
288 <command>MACH_BUILD_PYTHON_NATIVE_PACKAGE_SOURCE=none</command>: Use the
289 system python to create a virtual environment for <command>mach</command>
290 without downloading any python wheels nor using the system python modules.
291 This prevent version mismatches between system modules and bundled ones.
292 </para>
293
294<!--
295 <para>
296 <command>./mach configure</command>: This validates the supplied
297 dependencies and the <filename>mozconfig</filename>.
298 </para>
299-->
300
301 <para>
302 <option>./mach build --verbose</option>: Use this alternative if you
303 need details of which files are being compiled, together with any C or
304 C++ flags being used.
305 </para>
306
307 <para>
308 <option>./mach build -jN</option>: The build should, by default, use
309 all the online CPU cores. If using all the cores causes the build to swap
310 because you have insufficient memory, using fewer cores can be faster.
311 </para>
312
313 <para>
314 <option><envar>CC=gcc CXX=g++</envar></option>: BLFS used to
315 prefer to use gcc and g++ instead of upstream's defaults of the
316 <application>clang</application> programs. With the release of
317 gcc-12 the build takes longer with gcc and g++, primarily because
318 of extra warnings, and is bigger. Set these environment variables
319 <emphasis>before you run the configure script</emphasis>
320 if you wish to continue to use gcc, g++. Building
321 with GCC on i?86 is currently broken.
322 </para>
323
324 </sect2>
325
326 <sect2 role="configuration">
327 <title>Configuring Thunderbird</title>
328
329 <sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>
330
331 <para>
332 If your Window Manager or Desktop Environment does not allow you to
333 configure a default browser, you can add a configuration parameter to
334 <application>Thunderbird</application> so that a browser will start when
335 you click on an Internet/intranet/local URL. The procedure to check
336 or modify any of the configuration parameters is quite simple and the
337 instructions here can be used to view or modify any of the parameters.
338 </para>
339
340 <para>
341 First, open the configuration dialog by opening the <quote>Edit</quote>
342 drop-down menu. Choose <quote>Preferences</quote> and then scroll down
343 to the bottom of the page. Then, click the <quote>Config Editor</quote>
344 button. Click on the <quote>I accept the risk!</quote> button.
345 This will display a list of the configuration preferences and
346 information related to each one. You can use the <quote>Filter:</quote>
347 bar to enter search criteria and narrow down the listed items. Changing
348 a preference can be done using two methods. One, if the preference has a
349 boolean value (True/False), simply double-click on the preference to
350 toggle the value and two, for other preferences simply right-click on
351 the desired line, choose <quote>Modify</quote> from the menu and change
352 the value. Creating new preference items is accomplished in the same
353 way, except choose <quote>New</quote> from the menu and provide the
354 desired data into the fields when prompted.
355 </para>
356
357 <para>
358 The configuration preference item you need to check so that
359 <application>Thunderbird</application> uses a specified browser is the
360 <parameter>network.protocol-handler.app.http</parameter> which should be
361 set to the path of the desired browser, e.g.
362 <option>/usr/bin/firefox</option>.
363 </para>
364<!-- Bad URL
365 <tip>
366 <para>
367 There is a multitude of configuration parameters you can tweak to
368 customize <application>Thunderbird</application>. A very extensive,
369 but not so up-to-date list of these parameters can be found at
370 <ulink url="http://preferential.mozdev.org/preferences.html"/>.
371 </para>
372 </tip>
373-->
374 <para>
375
376 If you use a desktop environment such as <application>GNOME</application>
377 or <application>KDE</application>, a desktop file
378 <filename>thunderbird.desktop</filename> may be created, in order to
379 include a <quote><application>Thunderbird</application></quote> entry in
380 the menu. <!--If you didn't enable
381 <application>startup-notification</application> in your mozconfig, then
382 change the StartupNotify line to false.--> Run the following commands as the
383 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
384
385 </para>
386
387<screen role="root"><userinput>mkdir -pv /usr/share/{applications,pixmaps} &amp;&amp;
388
389cat &gt; /usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop &lt;&lt; "EOF" &amp;&amp;
390<literal>[Desktop Entry]
391Name=Thunderbird Mail
392Comment=Send and receive mail with Thunderbird
393GenericName=Mail Client
394Exec=thunderbird %u
395Terminal=false
396Type=Application
397Icon=thunderbird
398Categories=Network;Email;
399MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/rss+xml;x-scheme-handler/mailto;
400StartupNotify=true</literal>
401EOF
402
403ln -sfv /usr/lib/thunderbird/chrome/icons/default/default256.png \
404 /usr/share/pixmaps/thunderbird.png</userinput></screen>
405 </sect3>
406 </sect2>
407
408 <sect2 role="content">
409 <title>Contents</title>
410
411 <segmentedlist>
412 <segtitle>Installed Program</segtitle>
413 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
414 <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>
415
416 <seglistitem>
417 <seg>
418 thunderbird
419 </seg>
420 <seg>
421 Numerous libraries and modules in the /usr/lib/thunderbird directory
422 </seg>
423 <seg>
424 /usr/lib/thunderbird
425 </seg>
426 </seglistitem>
427 </segmentedlist>
428
429 <variablelist>
430 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
431 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
432 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
433
434 <varlistentry id="thunderbird-prog">
435 <term><command>thunderbird</command></term>
436 <listitem>
437 <para>
438 is <application>Mozilla</application>'s email and newsgroup client
439 </para>
440 <indexterm zone="thunderbird thunderbird-prog">
441 <primary sortas="b-thunderbird">thunderbird</primary>
442 </indexterm>
443 </listitem>
444 </varlistentry>
445
446 </variablelist>
447
448 </sect2>
449
450</sect1>
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