thunderbird failed to build from source in Fedora rawhide https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=28236714 For details on the mass rebuild see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild Please fix thunderbird at your earliest convenience and set the bug's status to ASSIGNED when you start fixing it. If the bug remains in NEW state for 8 weeks, thunderbird will be orphaned. Before branching of Fedora 30, thunderbird will be retired, if it still fails to build. For more details on the FTBFS policy, please visit: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fails_to_build_from_source
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This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 29 development cycle. Changing version to '29'.
The initial problem is just that a build dependency on gcc-c++ is required. After fixing that, the build proceeds for quite some time but eventually fails either during or immediately after running precompile_cache.js with this backtrace: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/builddir/build/BUILD/thunderbird-52.9.1/mozilla/toolkit/mozapps/installer/packager.py", line 415, in <module> main() File "/builddir/build/BUILD/thunderbird-52.9.1/mozilla/toolkit/mozapps/installer/packager.py", line 409, in main args.source, gre_path, base) File "/builddir/build/BUILD/thunderbird-52.9.1/mozilla/toolkit/mozapps/installer/packager.py", line 166, in precompile_cache errors.fatal('Error while running startup cache precompilation') File "/builddir/build/BUILD/thunderbird-52.9.1/mozilla/python/mozbuild/mozpack/errors.py", line 103, in fatal self._handle(self.FATAL, msg) File "/builddir/build/BUILD/thunderbird-52.9.1/mozilla/python/mozbuild/mozpack/errors.py", line 98, in _handle raise ErrorMessage(msg) mozpack.errors.ErrorMessage: Error: Error while running startup cache precompilation A bit before it fails I see the following: resource://gre/modules/ExtensionStorageSync.jsm ************************* A coding exception was thrown and uncaught in a Task. Full message: TypeError: invalid path component Full stack: join@resource://gre/modules/osfile/ospath_unix.jsm:90:13 openConnection@resource://gre/modules/Sqlite.jsm:904:14 storageSyncInit<@resource://gre/modules/ExtensionStorageSync.jsm:101:28 TaskImpl_run@resource://gre/modules/Task.jsm:319:42 TaskImpl@resource://gre/modules/Task.jsm:277:3 createAsyncFunction/asyncFunction@resource://gre/modules/Task.jsm:252:14 Task_spawn@resource://gre/modules/Task.jsm:166:12 @resource://gre/modules/ExtensionStorageSync.jsm:97:25 load_modules_under@/builddir/build/BUILD/thunderbird-52.9.1/mozilla/toolkit/mozapps/installer/precompile_cache.js:75:7 precompile_startupcache@/builddir/build/BUILD/thunderbird-52.9.1/mozilla/toolkit/mozapps/installer/precompile_cache.js:86:3 @-e:1:1 ************************* That's all a bit beyond me so I don't think there's much more I can do but I do hope that thunderbird will be sticking around in Fedora (sepecially with version 60 out now).
Moving Thunderbird bugs to Jan to manage them meanigfuly.
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Obviously thunderbird started building again at some point in the past 14 months.