704104 - Investigate building enigmail on our build infrastructure

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Mozilla Messaging Graveyard :: Release Engineering, defect)

Description

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

I'm ccing Patrick has he knows what the build requirements are more precisely than I do.

Patrick can you explain what your needs are and how enigmail should be built ?

Comment 1

[Patrick Brunschwig]

The build instructions for Enigmail are published here:
http://enigmail.mozdev.org/download/source.php.html

A short summary:
1. create a full Thunderbird build
2. extract the Enigmail source code into .../mailnews/extensions/
3. run makemake -r from .../mailnews/extensions/enigmail
4. cd to OBJDIR/mailnews/extensions/enigmail
5. run make && make xpi

Comment 2

[Patrick Brunschwig]

Sorry, I forgot to add that building Enigmail does not require more than building Thunderbird on any platform.

Comment 3

[Philippe M. Chiasson (:gozer)]

(In reply to Patrick Brunschwig from comment #1)
> The build instructions for Enigmail are published here:
> http://enigmail.mozdev.org/download/source.php.html

Definitely possible, but since it requires special build steps, somewhat tricky to merge into our build system. Not impossible, just special-casing we try and shy away from. Ideally, figuring out a way that leaves the build system unchanged would be much preferred.

> A short summary:
> 1. create a full Thunderbird build

Any specific build stuff necessary? Debug vs non-debug, etc ? Or should it
work with just about any build ?

> 2. extract the Enigmail source code into .../mailnews/extensions/

I assume it's in source-controls somewhere ?

> 3. run makemake -r from .../mailnews/extensions/enigmail

./makemake -r

> 4. cd to OBJDIR/mailnews/extensions/enigmail
> 5. run make && make xpi

That worked for me, except I got a build time failure:

/usr/bin/python2.7 [comm-central]/mozilla/build/xpccheck.py \
  [comm-central] \
  [comm-central]/mail/test/xpcshell.ini \
  [comm-central]/extensions/ipc-pipe/tests/unit
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "[comm-central]/mozilla/build/xpccheck.py", line 136, in <module>
    initests = getIniTests(d)
  File "[comm-central]/mozilla/build/xpccheck.py", line 62, in getIniTests
    mp.read(os.path.join(testdir, 'xpcshell.ini'))
  File "[comm-central]/mozilla/build/manifestparser.py", line 442, in read
    raise IOError('Missing files: %s' % ', '.join(missing))
IOError: Missing files: [comm-central]/extensions/ipc-pipe/tests/unit/xpcshell.ini

Comment 4

[Patrick Brunschwig]

(In reply to Philippe M. Chiasson (:gozer) from comment #3)
> 
> > A short summary:
> > 1. create a full Thunderbird build
> 
> Any specific build stuff necessary? Debug vs non-debug, etc ? Or should it
> work with just about any build ?

It should work with any build. Tests are most likely not working (see below).

> > 2. extract the Enigmail source code into .../mailnews/extensions/
> 
> I assume it's in source-controls somewhere ?

yes, it's in CVS on mozdev.org:
cvs -d :pserver:[e-mail]:/cvs co enigmail/src

> > 3. run makemake -r from .../mailnews/extensions/enigmail
> 
> ./makemake -r
> 
> > 4. cd to OBJDIR/mailnews/extensions/enigmail
> > 5. run make && make xpi
> 
> That worked for me, except I got a build time failure:
> 
> /usr/bin/python2.7 [comm-central]/mozilla/build/xpccheck.py \
>   [comm-central] \
>   [comm-central]/mail/test/xpcshell.ini \
>   [comm-central]/extensions/ipc-pipe/tests/unit
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "[comm-central]/mozilla/build/xpccheck.py", line 136, in <module>
>     initests = getIniTests(d)
>   File "[comm-central]/mozilla/build/xpccheck.py", line 62, in getIniTests
>     mp.read(os.path.join(testdir, 'xpcshell.ini'))
>   File "[comm-central]/mozilla/build/manifestparser.py", line 442, in read
>     raise IOError('Missing files: %s' % ', '.join(missing))
> IOError: Missing files:
> [comm-central]/extensions/ipc-pipe/tests/unit/xpcshell.ini

Yes, that's the failing tests I mentioned above. I disabled them now in the Makefile (committed to CVS).

Comment 5

[Philippe M. Chiasson (:gozer)]

Quick update, with the modified code from CVS, I got a successful build and created:

enigmail-1.4-linux-x86_64.xpi

Comment 6

[Patrick Brunschwig]

I'm working on getting rid of C++ in Enigmail, this is therefore no longer necessary.