[ale] 64bit thunderbird 3.0.4

Michael Trausch mike at trausch.us
Sat May 15 17:35:46 EDT 2010


On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 17:13 -0400, Michael Trausch wrote:
> You have to go to the Mozilla Developer Center to get to the releases.
> I found the TB release here:
> 
> ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/3.0.4/source/thunderbird-3.0.4.source.tar.bz2
> 
> However, putting together the build is non-trivial the way they do
> things.  Why they don't just use ./configure && make && make install,
> like other projects, is beyond me.  I hate hate *HATE* custom build
> system crap.  They already use the GNU build system, but then they
> have
> all this extra stuff around it.
> 
> I've already started building a 3.0.4 tree, though.  I'll upload it
> when
> it's done, and post the URL here.  It's been building for about 20
> minutes or so now.

Here's the URL:

http://mike.trausch.us/software/thunderbird-3.0.4.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 

It should work on any 64-bit distro, but if not, let me know.

	--- Mike

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