On Fri, Jan 03, 2020 at 09:27:56PM +0000, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 03, 2020 at 10:19:33AM -0600, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote:
> > 
> > On 1/3/20 8:35 AM, Paul Menzel via blfs-dev wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi Paul,
> > 
> > This isn't due to an oversight. In 2016, a ticket was filed named
> > "sqlite-3.11.0 causes error in Thunderbird serarch" (Ticket #7991). In order
> > to get search to work again, we had to add -DSQLITE3_ENABLE_FTS3_TOKENISER=1
> > to the sqlite CFLAGS. That option became required around Thunderbird-52.5.0.
> > I'll update the command explanations to match that though.
> > 
> 
> Looking at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1270882
> it seems there are indeed potential problems with that (used,
> apparently, by thunderbird and also by seamonkey).  But it implies
> that it was fixed in firefox-66 and therefore thunderbird-68 should
> be ok without it.
> 
> I've updated my local sqlite, currently building a firefox-68.4.0
> candidate.  Can try thunderbird after that, but I don't have a lot
> of mail in the account I use for that, not sure that a successful
> search would be proof it is ok.
> 
> Some details of the problem from FreeBSD in
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208500 : I guess I
> can see if that still happens for me.
> 

From the details in that FreeBSD ticket, I can enter a search result
in the topmost right box and get mails which match.  So for
thunderbird I don't think we need this anymore.  But I'd prefer to
leave that decision to someone who uses it heavily.

> And then there is also seamonkey, which I do not use.
> 

Just started building seamonkey, but I've never found it a
convenient way to browse, and gurgling on this got no matches about
what maybe was broken.

ĸen
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