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Following Firefox's recent change on trunk to 32/64 bit universal
Mac builds, we are currently looking at transitioning the
Thunderbird trunk nightlies as well. As the Gecko platform appears
(I'm not sure its been officially announced to any extent) to be
unsupporting ppc builds and 10.4 for the next trunk release, we will
be following on as it doesn't make sense for us to try and support
something that Firefox isn't.<br>
<br>
We now have Mac 64 bit builders on <a
href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Infrastructure/TryServer">Try
Server</a>. These are set up to do the 32/64 bit builds and will
run unit tests.<br>
<br>
At the moment, these builds will fail (unless you hack around the
failures) due to 64 bit issues that we haven't fixed yet. <a
href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537496">Bug
537496</a> is the tracker for the remaining issues.<br>
<br>
However, while we're getting the compilation failures fixed, I've
hacked around them and got builds to succeed, and the majority of
unit tests to pass.<br>
<br>
You can get the experimental build from here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/tryserver-builds/bugzilla@standard8.plus.com-2c3edfbd208b/tryserver-macosx64/">http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/tryserver-builds/bugzilla@standard8.plus.com-2c3edfbd208b/tryserver-macosx64/</a><br>
<br>
Notes and Known Issues:<br>
<ul>
<li>On Mac 10.5 the builds will only run in 32 bit mode. On 10.6
the builds will run in 64 bit mode - I believe 32 bit mode is
possible but from what I've seen on mozilla.dev.planning 32 bit
mode running on 10.6 will be unsupported.<br>
</li>
<li>The build includes the proposed fixes for the compose window
(hopefully these should be landing on trunk within the next 24
hours).<br>
</li>
<li>The unfixed <a
href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537872">compilation</a>
<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537900">bugs</a>
will mean that Eudora import and apple encoding of attachments
won't work.</li>
<li>We know there is a <a
href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604653">crash</a>
in the Kerberos/GSSAPI code for 64 bit mode.</li>
<li>I have no idea if update automation will work on the build, so
I recommend downloading a fresh nightly or updating your
existing ppc/32 bit nightly when we do get the 32/64 bit
nightlies running.<br>
</li>
</ul>
If you find any issues with the 64 bit builds that you can't
reproduce in the current 32 bit nightlies, please file a bug and
mark it as blocking the <a
href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537496">tracker
bug</a>.<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
Mark.<br>
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