This build was produced on a solaris2.10 platform. If you encounter any problem with the package, you may contact Leon Sha This build was made from the THUNDERBIRD_1_5_RELEASE tag in the CVS repository. Installation: * Goto the directory where you want to install this build. Make sure there is no firefox directory there. Just recover the old firefox directory is not suggested. Unpack the package. $ bunzip2 .tar.bz2 $ tar xvf .tar Then go to the install directory and run ./thunderbird. If you want to just type "thunderbird" to start the release, you can add it to PATH of setup a symbol link to /usr/bin. $export PATH=:$PATH - or - #ln -s /thunderbird /usr/bin/thunderbird * If you just can not start up or encount some unexpect crash, try to do this. Back up your "$HOME/.mozilla/firefox"/"$HOME/.mozilla"/"$HOME/.thunderbird. Remove this directory. Start up the application without import anything. Build instruction: You can get the instruction here. http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Build_Documentation I just list some special thing for solaris builds here. * Set the build environment export CC="" export CXX="" export PERL="" export PERL5="" export CFLAGS="-xlibmil" export CXXFLAGS="-xlibmil -xlibmopt -features=tmplife -norunpath" export LDFLAGS="-R'\$\$ORIGIN:\$\$ORIGIN/..' -R/usr/sfw/lib -R/opt/sfw/lib -R/usr/local/lib" The following tools/libraries were used for compilation: cc: Sun C 5.7 Patch 117836-02 2005/03/23 CC: Sun C++ 5.7 Patch 117830-02 2005/03/30 GNU Make 3.80 perl-5.8.4 * My .mozconfig file ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-xO3" ac_add_options --disable-tests ac_add_options --disable-debug ac_add_options --enable-xft ac_add_options --enable-svg ac_add_options --disable-freetype2 ac_add_options --disable-auto-deps ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 ac_add_options --enable-official-branding mk_add_options BUILD_OFFICIAL=1 mk_add_options MOZILLA_OFFICIAL=1