Sujet : Re: Open Source does not mean easily re-compile-able
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.unix.programmerDate : 03. Jan 2025, 03:55:03
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On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 19:36:50 -0500, Paul wrote:
I've built Thunderbird on both Windows and Linux.
It was the Windows build that left a bad taste.
Once you repeatedly have build failures during linking, you are always
looking for it.
Yours is not the only experience. I recall a blog post from the
LibreOffice folks, soon after they forked off from OpenOffice, that they
tended to suffer intermittent unexplainable build failures on Windows,
too.