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The thunderbird-x11 Portfile 55013 2009-08-06 02:50:26Z ryandesign macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: thunderbird-x11
Category: mail x11
Version: 2.0.0.22
Platform: darwin
Maintainers: nomaintainer
Description: Mozilla.org's popular stand-alone mail/news client

Long Description: Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster and easier than ever before with the industry's best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, a built-in spell checker, extension support, and much more.

Homepage: http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
Master Sites: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/${version}/source/
distname thunderbird-${version}-source
use_bzip2 yes

Checksums: md5 080c26dcb0ed563519a6061139a0bf92 sha1 a9da470ff090dfd049cae6b0c3b1a4e95c3f2022 rmd160 6f9693c0b7f5af0c60d245c96492f11a4c286efd

worksrcdir mozilla

Patch Files: patch-xpcom-build-Makefile patch-libprldap-Makefile.in patch-directory_c-sdk_ldap_libraries_libprldap_Makefile.in.diff

depends_build port:pkgconfig

depends_lib port:libidl path:lib/pkgconfig/glib-2.0.pc:glib2 port:zip port:gtk2 port:gnome-vfs port:gnome-icon-theme path:lib/pkgconfig/cairo.pc:cairo port:nspr


configure.args --enable-application=mail --disable-official-branding --with-distribution-id=org.macports --disable-static --enable-shared --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 --enable-xft --disable-freetype2 --enable-xinerama --with-pthreads --enable-gnomevfs --enable-postscript --disable-prebinding --disable-debug --enable-strip --enable-optimize='-O2' --disable-tests --with-default-mozilla-five-home=${prefix}/lib/thunderbird --with-system-jpeg=${prefix} --with-system-zlib=${prefix} --with-system-png=${prefix} --enable-system-cairo --with-system-cairo=${prefix} --with-system-nspr --with-nspr-prefix=${prefix}


Variant: debug description "build with debugging symbols" {
configure.args-delete --disable-debug --enable-optimize='-O2' --enable-strip

configure.args-append --enable-debug --disable-optimize --disable-strip
}

post-destroot {
file mkdir ${destroot}${prefix}/share/applications

copy ${filespath}/share-applications-thunderbird.desktop ${destroot}${prefix}/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop

system "( echo '#!/bin/sh'; echo 'exec ${prefix}/lib/thunderbird-${version}/thunderbird-bin \"\$ \"' ) > ${destroot}${prefix}/bin/thunderbird"
system "chmod 755 ${destroot}${prefix}/bin/thunderbird"
}

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/thunderbird-x11
%  sudo port install thunderbird-x11  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching thunderbird-x11
--->  Verifying checksum for thunderbird-x11
--->  Extracting thunderbird-x11
--->  Configuring thunderbird-x11
--->  Building thunderbird-x11 with target all

--->  Staging thunderbird-x11 into destroot

--->  Installing thunderbird-x11

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using thunderbird-x11 with these commands:

%  man thunderbird-x11
%  apropos thunderbird-x11
%  which thunderbird-x11
%  locate thunderbird-x11

 Where to find more information: