214456 - requirement for glibc 2.3 stated nowhere

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[mephinet]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

The 0.1 thunderbird linux builds from mozilla.org 
require glibc 2.3.
anyhow, this is not stated on the homepage, in the filename or elsewhere.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. find a linux system with a glibc < 2.3
2. download thunderbird-0.1-i686-pc-linux-gtk2-gnu.tar.bz2
3. start thunderbird

Actual Results:  
./thunderbird-bin: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found

Expected Results:  
homepage should state dependency or mozilla.org should compile against older version

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

this isn't a requirement. Our contributor uses it in his builds. If you build it
yourself you won't need it.

Once mozilla.org takes over building of thunderbird, they will build it with the
usual mozilla standards configuration.

Comment 2

[Edward Rudd]

It's almost a year later, and the builds are still being build with glibc2.3? 
Is mozilla.org building them or still the contributor?