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Date:      Sat, 11 Jul 2015 04:53:25 +0200
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        jd1008 <jd1008@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Building TB from source code
Message-ID:  <20150711045325.9eed25ae.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <55A0843A.9050806@gmail.com>
References:  <55A03950.6090209@gmail.com> <55A05CFE.90608@columbus.rr.com> <55A0843A.9050806@gmail.com>

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On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 20:49:30 -0600, jd1008 wrote:
> 
> 
> On 07/10/2015 06:02 PM, Baho Utot wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 07/10/15 17:29, jd1008 wrote:
> >> Has anyone been successful in building it from source code?
> >> Last time I tried, build failed because it required versions
> >> of packages that were of much older vintage than what was installed.
> >> Too many for me to recall.
> >>
> >> Need helpful hints, how-to's to accomplish this.
> >>
> >> I posted the same question to Fedora list and it has been
> >> so totally ignored, that I find it very interesting.
> > By TB I am thinking thunderbird...correct?
> >
> > Yes I build Thunderbird and firefox all the time using poudriere.
> >
> > Works for me.
> Cool!
> I wonder if you tried it on the TB or FF sources you downloaded directly 
> from mozilla.com???

Poudriere will use the sources from the FreeBSD ports collection.


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Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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