Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Drake Donahue <donahue95@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't Emerge Thunderbird-5.0/6.0
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:08:25
Message-Id: 1314140861.2924.0.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't Emerge Thunderbird-5.0/6.0 by Frank Peters
1 On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 16:45 -0400, Frank Peters wrote:
2 > On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:02:58 -0400
3 > Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net> wrote:
4 >
5 > >
6 > > Possibly these errors are related to USE="-alsa".
7 > >
8 >
9 > Thanks to all respondents.
10 >
11 > Thunderbird-6 builds now. The problem was too little tmpfs space
12 > and the USE="-alsa" flag.
13 >
14 > The new question is why is alsa required for the build to succeed?
15 >
16 > I don't follow thunderbird development but there is a previous bug
17 > report on this (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308363)
18 > and there is also a "noalsa-fixup" patch in the current portage tree.
19 >
20 > Also, from the gentoo Changelog:
21 >
22 > 21 Oct 2010; Jory A. Pratt <anarchy@g.o> thunderbird-3.1.5.ebuild,
23 > +files/bug-606109.patch:
24 > Address build failure with -alsa
25 >
26 > Anyway, I'll use thunderbird with alsa until I can find more about this.
27 >
28 > Frank Peters
29 >
30 >
31 How else can you enjoy a singing email?? :-)

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't Emerge Thunderbird-5.0/6.0 Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net>