Re: Windows build dependency on 8.3 short names

2019-07-01 Thread Paul Schauble
Thanks for pointing me to that. I looked at the review comments on changing the error message. With all due respect to the people commenting, most of them are wrong or incomplete. I understand why, most of Microsoft's documentation on this point is wrong or incomplete. Let me put this here fo

Windows build dependency on 8.3 short names

2019-06-30 Thread Paul Schauble
The Mozilla build system for Windows has an undocumented dependency on support for 8.3 short file and directory names. My first attempt at building TBird failed with these messages: 0:28.45 checking for the Debug Interface Access SDK... C:/PROGRA~2/MIB055~1/2019/COMMUN~

Re: Simple Thunderbird build says it's wrong, what's right?

2019-06-16 Thread Paul Schauble
On Sunday, June 16, 2019 at 6:44:28 AM UTC-7, Axel Hecht wrote: > Am 16.06.19 um 12:28 schrieb Paul Schauble: > > On Friday, June 14, 2019 at 1:53:53 AM UTC-7, Axel Hecht wrote: > >> On top of what Boris said, the release versions for Thunderbird are > >> built from E

Re: Simple Thunderbird build says it's wrong, what's right?

2019-06-16 Thread Paul Schauble
NCH. > > https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-esr60/, into mozilla/comm as > documented, which has tags for 60.7, 60.7.1, and further commits, just > pick the version you want there. > > Axel > > Am 14.06.19 um 06:27 schrieb Boris Zbarsky: > > On 6/13/19 7:15 PM, Paul Sch

Simple Thunderbird build says it's wrong, what's right?

2019-06-13 Thread Paul Schauble
Looking at the page "Simple Thunderbird build" under "Get the source", I see this note Warning: The page Getting comm-central Source Code Using Mercurial [en-US] is 99% out of date! Only useful content is working with Github. I'm not sure how to interpret this. Since this note refers to a dif