Hi,

since the llvm8 update, seamonkey doesnt build anymore on amd64 (but
does on i386). Build log at
http://build-failures.rhaalovely.net/amd64-clang/2019-06-19/www/seamonkey.log

The current seamonkey release (2.49.4) is based off esr52, which has
been deprecated/marked dead upstream since may 2018 when esr60 was
released. Which means it uses a potentially insecure codebase.

Looking at upstream meeting minutes
(https://wiki.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey/StatusMeetings) it seems unlikely to
me that seamonkey will see an esr60 or even esr68 release in a near
future.

It also fails to build on FreeBSD since the llvm8 update, per
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/498375. FreeBSD maintainer was
planning to expire the port
(http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/498361) but this got backed
out (http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/497995) and its now just
marked broken.

I have personally no interest in digging into this build failure, and
will likely mark the port as BROKEN-amd64 or ONLY_FOR_ARCH-i386. Anyone
is free to look into the problem and come up with a fix, but i'm sadly
not going to spend time on something that is slowly dying..

Landry

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