Mozilla Seamonkey: the impossible building

Building/Seamonkey

After my Firefox customized version , I wanted to compile also SeaMonkey on my Arch Linux and replacing official branding with the the historic Mozilla Suite one, thus creating a contemporary version of the historic Netscape precursor browser .

To do this I had to try again with the biggest obstacle:

The infamous Mozilla Suite building from source.

There are no dedicated sources and a modern & updated building method like Firefox but it is necessary to mix the comm with the mozilla x ones as there are various components (mail, browser, calendar, etc.) this operation with nightly (central) takes on epic values with GB of data to download…

After two weeks of trying I had to give up again. I had succeeded once many years ago and had tried unsuccessfully many times. Here are my attempts..

GitLab sources

I tried several times with stable version 2.53.x and 2.57.

I first downloaded all sources from GitLab (2.53)

https://gitlab.com/seamonkey-project

I again incredibly ran into same error that I reported myself four years ago:

the infamous

x86/fft.o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol `ff_cos_32'

Mercurial sources

Usual problems even downloading the sources with mercurial, which crashes mysteriously and regularly on the final due to ever-changing network problems.

Mercurial zip sources

I still managed to download zip version from mercurial of 2.57(esr60) sources but here are a series of errors…

_FORTIFY_SOURCE requires compiling with optimization mozilla

fixed with

--disable-hardening

but here is an endless series of

TypeError: list indices must be integers or slices, not str

esr102 & esr91

esr102 is the latest version and the build included an automated script that took care of installing some necessary files.

After a fixed problem with wasi ,missing nodejs and ruby dep, configure & install finally worked but running executable cause a

JavaScript error: , line 0: uncaught exception: undefined JavaScript error: jar:file:///usr/local/lib/seamonkey/omni.ja!/components/nsSetDefault.js, line 49: TypeError: XPCOMUtils.generateQI is not a function JavaScript error: jar:file:///usr/local/lib/seamonkey/omni.ja!/components/jsconsole-clhandler.js, line 31: TypeError: XPCOMUtils.generateQI is not a function JavaScript error: , line 0: uncaught exception: undefined

I can only see a profile manager gui withouth fonts..

esr91 causes another compile error:

webrender/webrender_ffi_generated.h:24:33: error: redefinition of 'ROOT_CLIP_CHAIN'