Hello Carsten,
Sorry for my delayed response. Due to I did not build thunderbird(old or
new version) successfully on locally before, I don't have sufficient
evidence to explain it.
Now I have made new progress in building locally this time, so I would
like to communicate and explain to you.
> we disabled a lot of usual architectures where nobody will use
> Thunderbird or at least can Thunderbird in a useful way.
My local patch attached, which includes the following two modifications,
1. Enable build for loong64
Please consider adding loong64 support in d/control.
2. third_party/botan: Add loongarch64 support
Due to Botan 2.18.2 in thunderbird 140.1.1esr-1 lacks loongarch64 support.
But loongarch64 is supported in Botan upstream, botan3 is also built for
loong64 in
debian(https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=botan3&arch=loong64).
> Did you check if a recent Thunderbird version is buildable on loong64?
> If not it makes no sense to me to enable loong64 in the Architecture
field.
Yes.
Based on attached patch, I have built thunderbird successfully on locally.
The details is as follows,
1. Build
......omit
dpkg-deb: building package 'thunderbird-l10n-be' in
'../thunderbird-l10n-be_140.1.1esr-1+loong64_all.deb'.
dpkg-deb: building package 'thunderbird-l10n-bg' in
'../thunderbird-l10n-bg_140.1.1esr-1+loong64_all.deb'.
dpkg-deb: building package 'thunderbird-l10n-br' in
'../thunderbird-l10n-br_140.1.1esr-1+loong64_all.deb'.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/again/thunderbird-140.1.1esr'
dpkg-genbuildinfo -O../thunderbird_140.1.1esr-1+loong64_loong64.buildinfo
dpkg-genchanges -O../thunderbird_140.1.1esr-1+loong64_loong64.changes
dpkg-genchanges: info: not including original source code in upload
dpkg-source --after-build .
dpkg-buildpackage: info: binary and diff upload (original source NOT
included)
signfile thunderbird_140.1.1esr-1+loong64.dsc
gpg: skipped "Dandan Zhang <[email protected]>": No secret key
2. Install
# apt install ./thunderbird_140.1.1esr-1_loong64.deb
3. Run
loongson@debian:~$ thunderbird -v
Mozilla Thunderbird 140.1.1esr
loongson@debian:~$ thunderbird --verbose
INFO -> [[ ... using verbose mode ... ]]
DEBUG -> call '/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird --name=thunderbird'
......
In short, apart from adding support for loongarch64 in third_party/botan
2.8.2, the thunderbird source code can be built without any modifications.
Could you add loong64 support in d/control?
Please feel free to contact me at any time.
Best regards,
Dandan Zhang
diff -Nru thunderbird-140.1.1esr/debian/changelog
thunderbird-140.1.1esr/debian/changelog
--- thunderbird-140.1.1esr/debian/changelog 2025-08-10 09:33:46.000000000
+0000
+++ thunderbird-140.1.1esr/debian/changelog 2025-08-19 01:31:15.000000000
+0000
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+thunderbird (1:140.1.1esr-1+loong64) experimental; urgency=medium
+
+ * Enable build for loong64
+ * third_party/botan: Add loongarch64 support
+
+ -- Dandan Zhang <[email protected]> Tue, 19 Aug 2025 09:31:15 +0800
+
thunderbird (1:140.1.1esr-1) experimental; urgency=medium
* [e6e4d2d] d/source.filter: Update content to filter out
diff -Nru thunderbird-140.1.1esr/debian/control
thunderbird-140.1.1esr/debian/control
--- thunderbird-140.1.1esr/debian/control 2025-08-10 09:33:46.000000000
+0000
+++ thunderbird-140.1.1esr/debian/control 2025-08-19 01:20:56.000000000
+0000
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
Standards-Version: 4.7.2
Package: thunderbird
-Architecture: amd64 arm64 i386 mips64el ppc64el s390x ppc64 riscv64
+Architecture: amd64 arm64 i386 mips64el ppc64el s390x ppc64 riscv64 loong64
Depends:
debianutils (>= 1.16),
fontconfig,
diff -Nru
thunderbird-140.1.1esr/debian/patches/botan-add-loongarch64-support.patch
thunderbird-140.1.1esr/debian/patches/botan-add-loongarch64-support.patch
--- thunderbird-140.1.1esr/debian/patches/botan-add-loongarch64-support.patch
1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ thunderbird-140.1.1esr/debian/patches/botan-add-loongarch64-support.patch
2025-08-19 01:31:15.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+Description: Enable build for loong64
+ .
+ thunderbird (1:140.1.1esr-1+loong64) experimental; urgency=medium
+ .
+ * Enable build for loong64
+ * third_party/botan: Add loongarch64 support
+Author: Dandan Zhang <[email protected]>
+
+---
+Last-Update: 2025-08-19
+
+--- /dev/null
++++
thunderbird-140.1.1esr/comm/third_party/botan/src/build-data/arch/loongarch64.txt
+@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
++family loongarch
++endian little
++wordsize 64
+---
thunderbird-140.1.1esr.orig/comm/third_party/botan/src/build-data/detect_arch.cpp
++++
thunderbird-140.1.1esr/comm/third_party/botan/src/build-data/detect_arch.cpp
+@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@
+ RISCV32
+ #endif
+
++#elif defined(__loongarch64)
++ LOONGARCH64
++
+ #else
+ UNKNOWN
+
diff -Nru thunderbird-140.1.1esr/debian/patches/series
thunderbird-140.1.1esr/debian/patches/series
--- thunderbird-140.1.1esr/debian/patches/series 2025-07-31
03:56:30.000000000 +0000
+++ thunderbird-140.1.1esr/debian/patches/series 2025-08-19
01:31:15.000000000 +0000
@@ -19,3 +19,4 @@
fixes/Install-vaapitest-v4l2test-only-when-build.patch
debian-hacks/Allow-to-override-rust-LTO-flag.patch
porting-ppc64el/skia-Adjust-detection-of-ppc64-architecture.patch
+botan-add-loongarch64-support.patch
