385095 - Account Wizard won't offer to create new RSS accounts (when installed with 'make install')

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Marcelo Ricardo Leitner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070208 Mandriva/2.0.0.4-3mdv2008.0 (2008.0) Firefox/2.0.0.4
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.4

Upstream compiled installation has rss.rdf in the following path:
/usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.4/isp/rss.rdf
But if you build thunderbird from the sources, it ends up on:
/usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.4/defaults/isp/rss.rdf
And RSS feeds are not listed in the Account Manager.

If you move it just like the upstream binary packages has it, it works just fine.

This is noticed since TB 2.0.0.0

What I don't understand is why upstream binary packages have the file correctly placed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Build Thunderbird from source
2.Install it
3.Start thunderbird
4.Try to create a RSS Account via Account Wizard
Actual Results:  
The option is not present in the Account Wizard.

Expected Results:  
There should be an option in the Account Wizard allowing us to create one of that type.

This may be related to bug #301945. I couldn't find any other match.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

This looks similar to bug 383933... Which source are you talking about here, the source from mozilla.org?

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

Gonna dupe to bug 383933.

Comment 3

[Adam Guthrie]

Err, sorry. Didn't see that that bug was resolved as WFM. The patch in bug 360702 probably has something to do with why this is broken. 

Marcelo, are you installing Thunderbird the same way each time? How exactly are you installing it?

Comment 4

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Attachment: Fix

Yep, bug 360702 switched to looking for isp/rss.rdf, and told make package (whatever awkward thing that used to be) to put it there, but left make install using defaults/isp/rss.rdf.

Comment 5

[Scott MacGregor]

Comment on attachment 278249 [details] [diff] [review]
Fix

I don't understand why I can't reproduce this problem, but Phil's patch is correct and this seems like something we'd want on the branch too.

Comment 6

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

mail/extensions/newsblog/Makefile.in 1.12

Comment 7

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Comment on attachment 278249 [details] [diff] [review]
Fix

approved for 1.8.1.7, a=dveditz for release-drivers

Comment 8

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

mail/extensions/newsblog/Makefile.in 1.7.4.4

Comment 10

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

verified fixed 1.8.1.8 using Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8pre) Gecko/20071009 Thunderbird/2.0.0.7pre ID:2007100903

RSS Accounts (RSS News & Blogs) are offered to created with the Account Wizzard 

-> adding verified keyword