Building TB from source code

[Lowell Gilbert]

Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> writes:

> On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 20:49:30 -0600, jd1008 wrote:
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>> On 07/10/2015 06:02 PM, Baho Utot wrote:
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>> > 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.

Which in the case of Firefox and Thunderbird,
will pull in the sources from mozilla.com.