[Enigmail] Building Enigmail for TB comm-central: static or shared, libxul or not?

[David Ward]

Michael J Gruber wrote:
> Patrick Brunschwig venit, vidit, dixit 26.01.2009 14:56:
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>> Michael J Gruber wrote:
>>> Ludwig Hügelschäfer venit, vidit, dixit 01/23/09 20:42:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Michael J Gruber wrote on 23.01.2009 13:56 Uhr:
>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm trying to build Enigmail for current TB nightlies. (I'm on 64bit
>>>>> Fedora 10 so I can't run Mozilla's 3.0b1 binaries easily anyways, and
>>>>> can't used binary Enigmail xpi either).
>>>>>
>>>>> I can build and run TB from a hg checkout of comm-central. Yeah ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> For building Enigmail (from cvs),
>>>> Are you using enigmail trunk (aka 0.96a)?
>>> Yes, that's what I meant by cvs, sorry. A current cvs checkout from
>>> trunk.
>>>
>>>>> I've been following the instructions
>>>>> on the Enigmail website and ended up with the attached error which
>>>>> seems
>>>>> to be related to a conflict in build options (shared/static).
>>>>>
>>>>> I've built TB with "ac_add_options --enable-static --disable-libxul"
>>>>> because d.m.o. says TB can't be built shared with libxul (and also
>>>>> because I wanted to "make package"). Is this still true? How
>>>>> (static/shared/libxul) do you build TB when you build Enigmail for
>>>>> TB 3
>>>>> nightlies?
>>>> Sorry, I don't know anything about the building process on linux. In
>>>> order to build the Mac OS X nightlies, I'm using these options for
>>>> TB trunk:
>>>>
>>>> mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=/path/to/my/objdir
>>>> ac_add_options --disable-tests
>>>> ac_add_options --disable-debug
>>>> ac_add_options --enable-crypto
>>>> ac_add_options --enable-optimize
>>>> ac_add_options --enable-static-mail
>>>> ac_add_options --enable-application=mail
>>>> mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=mail
>>>> mk_add_options AUTOCONF=autoconf213
>>>>
>>>> Maybe you get better help in mozilla.dev.builds on news.mozilla.org.
>>> I tried those options (they're the ones from enigmail.mozdev.org) minus
>>> the autoconf. I can build and run TB comm-central successfully with
>>> these options as well as others.
>>>
>>> My problem is building enigmail, which is why I think I'd better post
>>> here than on mozilla.dev.builds. So, my questions really are:
>>>
>>> - Which options do you use when you build enigmail.xpi? (probably the
>>> ones above)
>>
>> Here are my options:
>>
>> mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=mail
>> mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/enigdev
>> mk_add_options AUTOCONF=autoconf2.13
>>
>> ac_add_options --enable-application=mail
>> ac_add_options --enable-optimize
>> ac_add_options --disable-debug
>> ac_add_options --disable-tests
>> ac_add_options --enable-codesighs
>> ac_add_options --disable-shared
>> ac_add_options --enable-static
>> ac_add_options --disable-update-packaging
>> ac_add_options --disable-debug
>> ac_add_options --disable-tests
>> ac_add_options --enable-codesighs
>> ac_add_options --disable-shared
>> ac_add_options --enable-static
>> ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter
>>
>>> - Which combination of TB comm-central sha1 and Enigmail cvs rev. is
>>> known to build and run well together?
>>
>> any. I create nightly builds and they usually work fine.
>
> Patrick, thanks for taking the time. I can compile TB with the options
> above just nicely. Yet, building Enigmail gives me pain again, see
> below. Specifically, I
> did a  make -f client.mk clean" and rm -Rf'ed the enigmail copy,
> built TB, ran it ,
> copied ${enigmailcvscheckout}/enigmail/src to
> ${comm-central-with-gecko-1.9.1-checkout}/mailnews/extensions/enigmail,
> ran "./makemake -r" in the latter and "make" in
> ${objdir}/mailnews/extensions/enigmail.
>
> Instructions say cp enigmail/src to mozilla/mailnews/extensions/enigmail
> which doesn't exist. With the current build structure, mailnews
> "contains" (pulls as a module) mozilla-central (or rather 1.9.1), so I
> think what I used is the place to put enigmail. (I've tried
> mozilla/extensions/enigmail before, not better.)
>
> The error sounds as if ipc is being built shared whereas TB is built
> static (as per .mozconfig). Any more hints? makemake does pick up objdir
> so it sees the .mozconfig.
>
> This is on 64bit Fedora 10, by the way, gcc/g++ is gcc version 4.3.2
> 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7) (GCC).
>
> Thanks for your patience...
> Michael

I'm having the same error, compiling under Ubuntu 8.10 with Thunderbird 
3.0 beta 1 sources.  Any luck figuring out if shared building of ipc is 
the problem?

Thanks,

David Ward
Georgia Institute of Technology