[Enigmail] Enigmail stopped working - not on update

[Patrick Brunschwig]

Eitan Adler wrote:
> Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
>>
>> It looks like you made an error, but it's hard to tell with just the
>> little information you gave what went wrong. I'm guessing that you
>> either didn't compile the required Thunderbird parts properly (Step 1-4
>> of "Compiling Thunderbird") or your OBJDIR is wrong.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Patrick
> [snip]
> I ran through all the steps again.  I got no errors whatsoever under the
> "make" after "./makemake".  I followed the steps exactly as shown (I
> didn't change .mozconfig or -o or any other configuration files).
> my /etc/make.conf is
> PERL_VER=5.8.8
> PERL_VERSION=5.8.8
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lxpcom --> are those flags?

xpcom is a library.

> [tb at moo ~]$/usr/bin/ld
> /usr/bin/ld: no input files
> [tb at moo ~]$/usr/bin/ld -lxpcom
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lxpcom
> 
> is this a difference between Linux ld and BSD ld perhaps?

Maybe, but I think that Mozilla's configure would know about it. Which
version of gcc do you use?

-Patrick