Re: Installing xmlextras on Thunderbird [static build stuff?]

Paul Sinnett wrote:

> Something inside thunderbird but outside of xpcom knows that I didn't
> have xmlextras installed with thunderbird and removes it from
> compreg.dat. Where is thunderbird getting its information from? It's
> not from xpti.dat (I have 4 versions of this as well but they all
> contain the xmlextras stuff.)

More investigation:

The Gentoo ebuild which I am using, extracts all the files for building
xmlextras. I'm thinking that my original problem (that this
component isn't installed) is due to the build settings. Although it
seems odd that I can't install these components building...