Because of the security vulnerabilities fixed in thunderbird 2.0.0.23, I decided to build it for myself ahead of schedule. In so doing, I discovered it wouldn't build for me, and located a patch to fix it. I attach the modified PKGBUILD and the patch here, perhaps to save some others some effort. Built and running successfully on i686-- used to send this message, in fact. Provenance of the patch is Fedora, via this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird/browse_thread/thread/512f83ea2ba541fd/f762691cef05e30a?lnk=raot&pli=1 - P # $Id: PKGBUILD 46668 2009-07-19 15:08:42Z jgc $ # Maintainer: Alexander Baldeck <alexander@archlinux.org> # Contributor: Dale Blount <dale@archlinux.org> # Contributor: Anders Bostrom <anders.bostrom@home.se> pkgname=thunderbird pkgver=2.0.0.23 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Standalone Mail/News reader" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') license=('MPL' 'GPL') url="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird" provides=('mozilla-thunderbird') conflicts=('mozilla-thunderbird') replaces=('mozilla-thunderbird') depends=('gtk2>=2.16.5' 'gcc-libs>=4.4' 'libidl2>=0.8.13' 'mozilla-common' 'nss>=3.12.3' 'libxt' 'shared-mime-info') makedepends=('zip' 'pkgconfig' 'imagemagick>=6.5.3.10-1' 'libgnomeui') options=('!makeflags') source=(ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/${pkgver}/source/thunderbird-${pkgver}-source.tar.bz2 mozconfig thunderbird.desktop thunderbird-1.5-lang.patch firefox-2.0-link-layout.patch thunderbird-appversion.patch xulrunner-elif.patch thunderbird-2.0-visibility.patch) md5sums=('2e118fcf752ee60ce994f1471f9632d1' '17e3015259da53f40bc445b27078f693' 'ea4e3c3dee98e3891bef16409551eb6e' 'bc6f10a06407faee6494acad546aabf9' 'b933c00957ea793fe940f4d46a85e10e' '63dd0436e43e2de71abcf9160a1a6f44' '38457261a6355365079dbe5c2342ec68' '50345f0dc7b1fc59c3bb9fb49a19b7e5') build() { cd "${srcdir}/mozilla" patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/thunderbird-1.5-lang.patch" || return 1 patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/firefox-2.0-link-layout.patch" || return 1 patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/thunderbird-appversion.patch" || return 1 patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/xulrunner-elif.patch" || return 1 patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/thunderbird-2.0-visibility.patch" || return 1 cp "${srcdir}/mozconfig" .mozconfig if [ "${CARCH}" = "x86_64" ]; then echo "ac_cv_visibility_pragma=no" >> .mozconfig fi export MOZ_PROJECT=mail unset CXXFLAGS unset CFLAGS make -f client.mk build || return 1 make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install || return 1 rm -rf "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/defaults" install -m755 -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications" install -m755 -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pixmaps" convert "${srcdir}/mozilla/mail/app/default.xpm" \ "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pixmaps/thunderbird.png" || return 1 install -m644 "${srcdir}/thunderbird.desktop" \ "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/" || return 1 install -m644 "${srcdir}/mozilla/mail/app/default.xpm" \ "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0/icons/" || return 1 rm -f ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/pkgconfig/thunderbird-ns{s,pr}.pc } diff -up mozilla/configure.vis mozilla/configure --- mozilla/configure.vis 2009-08-19 14:43:58.000000000 +0200 +++ mozilla/configure 2009-08-19 15:15:11.000000000 +0200 @@ -8015,7 +8015,7 @@ EOF if ${CC-cc} -Werror -S conftest.c -o conftest.s >/dev/null 2>&1; then if egrep '\.(hidden|extern_private).*foo_hidden' conftest.s >/dev/null; then if ! egrep '\.(hidden|extern_private).*foo_default' conftest.s > /dev/null; then - ac_cv_visibility_pragma=yes + ac_cv_visibility_pragma=no fi fi fi