SeaMonkey:hg-based build

The work for building SeaMonkey and Thunderbird with mozilla-central has originally been based on the SeaMonkey/1.9.1_Repository_Options, and then refined following MailNews:HgMeetingNotes to use it own testing repository.

The new "comm-central" Mercurial repository (test version called "calemaisu-test") contains SeaMonkey and Thunderbird code for now, calendar will follow at a later date. All of those codebases are imported as static snapshots from CVS, without keeping history, which will be available through cvs and web tools. The shared repository contains its own build system files, which started off as copies of the Mozilla equivalents, with some path adjustments and removals of not needed parts. For now, they call into lots of mozilla files, which can be gradually reduced over time so that in the end SeaMonkey and Thunderbird can build with some sort of a XULRunner SDK.

The pages about getting Mozilla code via hg and Mercurial (hg) itself from Mozilla Developer Center are probably helpful when dealing with the repositories.

building SeaMonkey or Thunderbird

• pull the test repository

 hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/users/kairo_kairo.at/calemaisu-test/ src
 cd src

• update/pull all other needed source via client.py

 python client.py checkout

• make sure you have autoconf 2.13 installed, see the comment about this on MDC
• create a mozconfig, using the normal --enable-application=suite (for SeaMonkey, mail for Thunderbird)
• build using client.mk:

 make -f client.mk build

building with Lightning calendar

• mozconfig: --enable-calendar
• calendar/: apply the patch for bug 442566 if it hasn't landed yet
• calendar/lightning/Makefile.in: include config.mk with the patch for bug 440017 if it hasn't landed yet
• calendar/lightning/Makefile.in: apply the patch for bug 440022 (if it hasn't landed yet) so that the produced Lighting installs well

Common Mistakes

Build error when importing example mozconfig

If you get the following build error:

/comm-central/src/mozilla/configure: /comm-central/src/mozilla/mail/config/mozconfig: No such file or directory

Open your mozconfig and change the line:

. $topsrcdir/mail/config/mozconfig

To:

ac_add_options --enable-application=mail

The original problem happens because when configuring in mozilla/ (mozilla-central) it reads mozilla/ as the topsrcdir and errors out in that it can't find the inclusion you want.

As we have other solutions for setting the configuration defaults nowadays, the --enable-application line is the only one we really need out of there.