526615 - unmet dependency

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[yannick.parmentier]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091016 Firefox/3.5.4
Build Identifier: 

Under ubuntu, when using the current stable version of thunderbird from the website (not the ubuntu package), thunderbird crashes for it does not found the libstdc++.so.5 file, which is no more included in ubuntu 9.10.

FYI: I did not use the ubuntu package because there is a bug between this package and the lightning extension, coming from the calendar.js file dixit the error console).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.download the tar.gz archive of the latest thunderbird (2.0.0.23)
2.untar it
3.execute ./thunderbird
Actual Results:  
$ ./thunderbird
./thunderbird/thunderbird-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


Expected Results:  
ubuntu 9.10 only comes with libstdc++.so.6 (a symbolic link to libstdc++.so.5 does not work, the API changed apparently)

Comment 1

[timeless]

[timeless@konigsberg tmp]$ wget http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/2.0.0.23/linux-i686/en-US/thunderbird-2.0.0.23.tar.gz
[timeless@konigsberg tmp]$ tar zxf thunderbird-2.0.0.23.tar.gz thunderbird/thunderbird-bin
[timeless@konigsberg tmp]$ file thunderbird/thunderbird-bin 
thunderbird/thunderbird-bin: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, stripped
[timeless@konigsberg tmp]$ ldd thunderbird/thunderbird-bin |grep stdc
	libstdc++.so.5 => not found

afaiu, thunderbird2 is eol, the build config is unlikely to be changed.

i think this is a duplicate.

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Thunderbird 2 is no longer supported, hence we're not going to fix this bug. The suggested route is to upgrade to a newer Thunderbird version or use a distro supplied version of Thunderbird.