thunderbird-128.0

[Bruce Dubbs]

New major version.

[Xi Ruoyao]

125 is not an ESR release. The next ESR is 128.

[Joe Locash]

Now at 128.0esr.

Looks they are going to be using the esr label from now on.

No release notes available yet but I'm assuming similar security updates as the Firefox-128 base.

As was the case with Firefox-128, the LLVM-18, WebRTC, and ARM changes are no longer needed.

[Douglas R. Reno]

The release notes for this version of Thunderbird can be found at ​https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/128.0esr/releasenotes/. They are too long to list here

We'll have to keep an eye out for the security advisory upstream, but for now I will use the same set as Firefox once I have it done.

[Tim Tassonis]

Has anybody had any success in builing it?

I get strange errors in the ./mach stuff

[Douglas R. Reno]

Hey Tim, is this the same error you get?

I think this version is broken:

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'mozbuild/srcdirs/thunderbird-128.0-419d70a4e7c9/_virtualenvs/build/bin/python'

I'm going to move this over to 99-Waiting and mark it as waiting for the next release

[Tim Tassonis]

Yes, that's the one!

[Joe Locash]

I've built it in both 12.1 and 12.2. As I stated, the LLVM-18, WebRTC, and ARM changes are NOT needed.

[Douglas R. Reno]

Can I see your buildscript? Copy and pasting from the book directly:

cat > mozconfig << "EOF"
# If you have a multicore machine, all cores will be used.

# If you have installed wireless-tools comment out this line:
ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi

# Uncomment the following option if you have not installed PulseAudio
#ac_add_options --enable-audio-backends=alsa

# Comment out following options if you have not installed
# recommended dependencies:
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-webp

# on some machines. It is supposed to improve startup time and it shrinks
# libxul.so by a few MB.  With recent Binutils releases the linker already
# supports a much safer and generic way for this.
ac_add_options --disable-elf-hack
export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -Wl,-z,pack-relative-relocs"

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

ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter
ac_add_options --disable-updater
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --disable-debug-symbols
ac_add_options --disable-tests

# The SIMD code relies on the unmaintained packed_simd crate which
# fails to build with Rustc >= 1.78.0.  We may re-enable it once
# Mozilla port the code to use std::simd and std::simd is stabilized.
ac_add_options --disable-rust-simd

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

# You cannot distribute the binary if you do this.
ac_add_options --enable-official-branding

ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi
ac_add_options --enable-system-pixman

ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg
ac_add_options --with-system-png
ac_add_options --with-system-zlib

# Using sandboxed wasm libraries has been moved to all builds instead
# of only mozilla automation builds. It requires extra llvm packages
# and was reported to seriously slow the build. Disable it.
ac_add_options --without-wasm-sandboxed-libraries
EOF

export MACH_BUILD_PYTHON_NATIVE_PACKAGE_SOURCE=none &&
export MOZBUILD_STATE_PATH=./mozbuild               &&
./mach build

I get:

renodr [ /sources/thunderbird-128.0 ]$ export MACH_BUILD_PYTHON_NATIVE_PACKAGE_SOURCE=none &&
export MOZBUILD_STATE_PATH=./mozbuild               &&
./mach build
Creating global state directory from environment variable: ./mozbuild
Creating local state directory: mozbuild/srcdirs/thunderbird-128.0-419d70a4e7c9
 0:00.40 W Clobber not needed.
 Config object not found by mach.
Error running mach:

    mach build

The error occurred in code that was called by the mach command. This is either
a bug in the called code itself or in the way that mach is calling it.
You can invoke ``./mach busted`` to check if this issue is already on file. If it
isn't, please use ``./mach busted file build`` to report it. If ``./mach busted`` is
misbehaving, you can also inspect the dependencies of bug 1543241.

If filing a bug, please include the full output of mach, including this error
message.

The details of the failure are as follows:

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'mozbuild/srcdirs/thunderbird-128.0-419d70a4e7c9/_virtualenvs/build/bin/python'

  File "/sources/thunderbird-128.0/python/mozbuild/mozbuild/build_commands.py", line 221, in build
    return driver.build(
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/sources/thunderbird-128.0/python/mozbuild/mozbuild/controller/building.py", line 1087, in build
    status = self._build(
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/sources/thunderbird-128.0/python/mozbuild/mozbuild/controller/building.py", line 1191, in _build
    config_rc = self.configure(
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/sources/thunderbird-128.0/python/mozbuild/mozbuild/controller/building.py", line 1624, in configure
    with subprocess.Popen(
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/subprocess.py", line 1026, in __init__
    self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/subprocess.py", line 1955, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)

[Joe Locash]

Replying to Douglas R. Reno:

Can I see your buildscript? Copy and pasting from the book directly:

export MOZBUILD_STATE_PATH=./mozbuild               &&

This is the problem. I use

export MOZBUILD_STATE_PATH=${PWD}/mozbuild

[Tim Tassonis]

Replying to Joe Locash:

Replying to Douglas R. Reno:

Can I see your buildscript? Copy and pasting from the book directly:

export MOZBUILD_STATE_PATH=./mozbuild               &&

This is the problem. I use

export MOZBUILD_STATE_PATH=${PWD}/mozbuild

Cool, yeah, that does the trick! Thank you very much!

[Douglas R. Reno]

Replying to Douglas R. Reno:

The release notes for this version of Thunderbird can be found at ​https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/128.0esr/releasenotes/. They are too long to list here

We'll have to keep an eye out for the security advisory upstream, but for now I will use the same set as Firefox once I have it done.

The security advisory is now available and is identical to Firefox as suspected

[Douglas R. Reno]

Fixed at 65f507b732015e3f752eb1498d8f6d6565fd6ba3

SA-12.1-076 issued