Building Thunderbird 3.1.15 for Ubuntu 11.10

If (for whatever reasons) you with to continue to use Thunderbird 3.1.x on Ubuntu 11.10, then you will have to build it yourself.

You can follow this guide, with a few exceptions:

Use the latest thunderbird 3.1.x (For example 3.1.15)
Then, when building it directly you will receive a few errors:

1. Patching os2.cc

--- a/gfx/ots/src/os2.cc

+++ b/gfx/ots/src/os2.cc

@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@

 // Copyright (c) 2009 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.

 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be

 // found in the LICENSE file.

  

+#include

+

 #include "os2.h"

  

 #include "head.h"

  

 // OS/2 - OS/2 and Windows Metrics

 // http://www.microsoft.com/opentype/otspec/os2.htm

  

 namespace ots {

2. Add GC 4.6 backward compatibility option in your mozconf file:
export CXXFLAGS="-fpermissive"

3. Patch the makefile to use correct linking order

+--- a/mail/app/Makefile.in
++++ b/mail/app/Makefile.in
+@@ -127,6 +127,8 @@ APP_XPCOM_LIBS = $(XPCOM_LIBS)
+ endif
+ 
+ LIBS += \
++ $(STATIC_EXTRA_LIBS) \
++ $(MOZ_OTS_LIBS) \
+  $(STATIC_COMPONENTS_LINKER_PATH) \
+  $(MOZ_JS_LIBS) \
+  $(EXTRA_DSO_LIBS) \
+@@ -185,8 +187,6 @@ DEFINES  += $(STATIC_DEFINES)
+ CPPSRCS  += $(STATIC_CPPSRCS)
+ EXTRA_DSO_LIBS += $(STATIC_EXTRA_DSO_LIBS)
+ REQUIRES += $(STATIC_REQUIRES)
+-EXTRA_LIBS += $(STATIC_EXTRA_LIBS)
+-EXTRA_LIBS += $(MOZ_OTS_LIBS)
+ 
+ ifndef MOZILLA_1_9_2_BRANCH
+ 

After these changes you should be able to build thunderbird 3.1.x under Ubuntu 11.10