[GERRIT] moz build fixed on Ubuntu -- was Re: --disable mozilla necessary for Ubuntu

Bjoern Michaelsen bjoern.michaelsen at canonical.com
Mon Jul 2 02:05:00 PDT 2012


On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 11:13:36PM -0700, Joel Madero wrote:
> Well I was able to install with mozilla enabled but I am unable to do the
> test case of importing the thunderbird address book. The reason is that
> it's not listed in my options when I do "other external data source" from
> the import wizard, it looks like this is a bug in Ubuntu which is discussed
> here, although it's status is unknown -- not even sure if it's been
> reported:
> 
> http://ubuntu.5.n6.nabble.com/Libre-Office-and-Thunderbird-Addressbook-td1100175.html
> 
> So enabling mozilla basically does nothing for Ubuntu (or Ubuntu derived
> distributions).
> 
> Joel

"The Mozilla / Netscape, Thunderbird and LDAP address book are only available,
when OOo is built using an internal mozilla 1.7.5 copy, including a 250k patch;
we currently do not provide support for this version, including security
updates for releases."
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/93546/comments/70

Best,

Bjoern


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