Re: thunderbird fails to build

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%talktalk.net@localhost>]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2022 at 08:34:53PM -0400, gary%duzan.org@localhost wrote:
> >
> > NetBSD 9 amd64, and I have already mostly moved to python 3.10.
> >
> > Does this build for others?
> 
>    I haven't tried, but it looks like this
> 
> >   File
> > "/tmp/work/mail/thunderbird/work/thunderbird-78.12.0/python/mozbuild/mozbuild/util.py",
> > line 785, in HierarchicalStringList
> >     class StringListAdaptor(collections.Sequence):
> > AttributeError: module 'collections' has no attribute 'Sequence'
> > *** Error code 1
> 
> should be referencing "collections.abc.Sequence". Presumably this
> indicates that this version was targeting an older version of Python, as
> "collections.Sequence" appears to have been removed in 3.7.

... and there was a patch in 

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1719144

which changed to use the .abc., but then was reverted because then
python 3.7 was unhappy. It seems that it has been fixed however, and
the "easiest" may be to update thunderbird. (Not so "easy".)



Cheers,

Patrick