On 05/20/2012 02:54 AM, Andrew Benton wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2012 01:04:14 +0100 > Bruce Dubbs<[email protected]> wrote: > >> [email protected] wrote: >>> Author: andy >>> Date: 2012-05-19 16:21:51 -0600 (Sat, 19 May 2012) >>> New Revision: 10221 >>> >>> Modified: >>> trunk/BOOK/xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml >>> Log: >>> Neither Seamonkey or Thunderbird can use xulrunner >> >> Really? I haven't tried but Wikipedia says: >> >> All XUL-based applications like Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, >> Songbird, Flickr Uploadr, SeaMonkey, Conkeror, Sunbird, Miro, Joost, and >> TomTom Home 2.0 run on XULRunner. >> >> I haven't validated that, but I'll investigate some more. > > The Mozilla code was forked a couple of years ago. It used to be > possible to build Firefox, Thunderbird or the Mozilla suite from the > same tarball but that hasn't been true for a couple of years. So yes, > the Wiki page is right, Thunderbird and Seamonkey use a version of > Xulrunner. If you find a way to build a functional Seamonkey or > Thunderbird against Xulrunner from Firefox that would be great as > they'd be able to share code. I don't believe it's possible. > > Andy
I've tried to build Thunderbird against system Xulrunner and failed at some point. I did not understand the reason. Thunderbird cannot be built against system Xulrunner. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
