Seamonkey-2.53.19

Installation of Seamonkey

The configuration of Seamonkey is accomplished by creating a mozconfig file containing the desired configuration options. A default mozconfig file is created below. To see the entire list of available configuration options (and an abbreviated description of each one), issue ./configure --help. You may also wish to review the entire file and uncomment any other desired options. Create the file by issuing the following command:

cat > mozconfig << "EOF"
# If you have a multicore machine, all cores will be used

# If you have installed DBus-Glib comment out this line:
ac_add_options --disable-dbus

# If you have installed dbus-glib, and you have installed (or will install)
# wireless-tools, and you wish to use geolocation web services, comment out
# this line
ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi

# Uncomment these lines if you have installed optional dependencies:
#ac_add_options --enable-system-hunspell
#ac_add_options --enable-startup-notification

# Uncomment the following option if you have not installed PulseAudio
#ac_add_options --disable-pulseaudio
# and uncomment this if you installed alsa-lib instead of PulseAudio
#ac_add_options --enable-alsa

# Comment out the following option if you have gconf installed
ac_add_options --disable-gconf

# Comment out following options if you have not installed
# recommended dependencies:
ac_add_options --with-system-icu
ac_add_options --with-system-libevent
ac_add_options --with-system-nspr
ac_add_options --with-system-nss
ac_add_options --with-system-webp

# Disabling debug symbols makes the build much smaller and a little
# faster. Comment this if you need to run a debugger.
ac_add_options --disable-debug-symbols

# The elf-hack is reported to cause failed installs (after successful builds)
# on some machines. It is supposed to improve startup time and it shrinks
# libxul.so by a few MB.  With recent Binutils releases the linker already
# supports a much safer and generic way for this.
ac_add_options --disable-elf-hack
ac_add_options --enable-linker=bfd
export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -Wl,-z,pack-relative-relocs"

# Seamonkey has some additional features that are not turned on by default,
# such as an IRC client, calendar, and DOM Inspector. The DOM Inspector
# aids with designing web pages. Comment these options if you do not
# desire these features.
ac_add_options --enable-calendar
ac_add_options --enable-dominspector
ac_add_options --enable-irc

# The BLFS editors recommend not changing anything below this line:
ac_add_options --prefix=/usr
ac_add_options --enable-application=comm/suite

ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter
ac_add_options --disable-updater
ac_add_options --disable-tests

# The SIMD code relies on the unmaintained packed_simd crate which
# fails to build with Rustc >= 1.78.0.  We may re-enable it once
# Mozilla port the code to use std::simd and std::simd is stabilized.
ac_add_options --disable-rust-simd

ac_add_options --enable-strip
ac_add_options --enable-install-strip

# You cannot distribute the binary if you do this.
ac_add_options --enable-official-branding

# The option to use system cairo was removed in 2.53.9.
ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi
ac_add_options --enable-system-pixman

ac_add_options --with-system-bz2
ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg
ac_add_options --with-system-png
ac_add_options --with-system-zlib

export CC=clang CXX=clang++
EOF

First, if you are building with system ICU, adapt the line break mapping for ICU-74 or later, apply a patch to build this package with the C++17 standard because the headers of ICU-75 or later require some C++17 features, and adapt the build system to use the correct library with ICU-76 or later:

(for i in {43..47}; do
   sed '/ZWJ/s/$/,CLASS_CHARACTER/' -i intl/lwbrk/LineBreaker.cpp || exit $?
done) &&

patch -Np1 -i ../seamonkey-2.53.19-cxx17-1.patch &&

sed -i 's/icu-i18n/icu-uc &/' js/moz.configure

Next, remove a hunk of unused code violating the C++ standard. Clang has started to reject it even though it's unused since the 19.1.0 release:

sed '/ExclusiveData(ExclusiveData&&/,/^ *}/d' \
    -i js/src/threading/ExclusiveData.h

Next, fix a problem with the bundled 'distro' python module:

sed -e '1012 s/stderr=devnull/stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL/' \
    -e '1013 s/OSError/(OSError, subprocess.CalledProcessError)/' \
    -i third_party/python/distro/distro.py

Compile Seamonkey by running the following commands:

export PATH_PY311=/opt/python3.11/bin:$PATH &&
PATH=$PATH_PY311 AUTOCONF=true MACH_USE_SYSTEM_PYTHON=1 ./mach build

This package does not come with a test suite.

Install Seamonkey by issuing the following commands as the root user:

PATH=$PATH_PY311 MACH_USE_SYSTEM_PYTHON=1 ./mach install &&
chown -R 0:0 /usr/lib/seamonkey                          &&

cp -v $(find -name seamonkey.1 | head -n1) /usr/share/man/man1

Finally, unset the PATH_PY311 variable:

unset $PATH_PY311

mkdir -pv /usr/share/{applications,pixmaps}              &&

cat > /usr/share/applications/seamonkey.desktop << "EOF"
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=Seamonkey
Comment=The Mozilla Suite
Icon=seamonkey
Exec=seamonkey
Categories=Network;GTK;Application;Email;Browser;WebBrowser;News;
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
EOF

ln -sfv /usr/lib/seamonkey/chrome/icons/default/default128.png \
        /usr/share/pixmaps/seamonkey.png