[Enigmail] Enigmail stopped working - not on update

[Eitan Adler]

Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
> Eitan Adler wrote:
>> Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
>>> It looks like you made an error, but it's hard to tell with just the
>>> little information you gave what went wrong. I'm guessing that you
>>> either didn't compile the required Thunderbird parts properly (Step 1-4
>>> of "Compiling Thunderbird") or your OBJDIR is wrong.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> Patrick
>> [snip]
>> I ran through all the steps again.  I got no errors whatsoever under the
>> "make" after "./makemake".  I followed the steps exactly as shown (I
>> didn't change .mozconfig or -o or any other configuration files).
>> my /etc/make.conf is
>> PERL_VER=5.8.8
>> PERL_VERSION=5.8.8
>>
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lxpcom --> are those flags?
> 
> xpcom is a library.
> 
>> [tb at moo ~]$/usr/bin/ld
>> /usr/bin/ld: no input files
>> [tb at moo ~]$/usr/bin/ld -lxpcom
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lxpcom
>>
>> is this a difference between Linux ld and BSD ld perhaps?
> 
> Maybe, but I think that Mozilla's configure would know about it. Which
> version of gcc do you use?
> 
> -Patrick
from gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: i386-undermydesk-freebsd
Configured with: FreeBSD/i386 system compiler
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.2.1 20070719  [FreeBSD]