226800 - Building thunderbird with --enable-static --disable-shared fails on the final link

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 245430

(Thunderbird :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[amardare]

Configure the thunderbird to use
--enable-static --disable-shared 
( a static build ).

The building process fails on the final link for the thunderbird-bin
executable with a function missing: 

../../dist/lib/libxulapp_s.a(nsAppRunner.o): In function `xre_main(int, char 
**, nsXREAppData const &)': 
nsAppRunner.o(.text+0x3d80): undefined reference to 'app_getModuleInfo
(nsStaticModuleInfo **, unsigned int *)' 
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status 

The similar procedure works ok for firebird.

Comment 1

[Bernard Alleysson]

-> Build config
-> OS All (seen on Windows too)

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

we don't support static builds

Comment 3

[amardare]

But we should support static builds.
The firebird does.

Comment 4

[Hiro]

In Mac OSX, it becomes an error by the last link like
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238309#c7.

Makefile of thunderbird does not have a description still required for static
build like Makefile of mozilla or firefox.

http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/mail/app/Makefile.in
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/browser/app/Makefile.in
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/xpfe/bootstrap/Makefile.in

If static build is not supported, it should repeal the static option of configure.
However, I want static build to be supported.

Mac OS X 10.3.3 & Xcode 1.1

Comment 5

[Isaac Hwak Han]

*** Bug 203980 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Jon Henry]

This is probably now a dupe of bug 245430, since even though this bug is older
the other one is where Scott is actually doing work ;).

Comment 7

[Scott MacGregor]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 245430 ***