Comment # 5 on bug 1062195 from Norman Gorlt

Hello Wolfgang,

at first thank you once again for your effort.

The day before yesterday I tried to compile seamonkey from source with German
language support.
I compiled seamonkey successful a few time before but this was my first non
English version.
Here my experiences:

Operating system Slacko 700 RC3 K4.4.70 PAE ( Slackware 14.2 basing
Distribution )
seamonkey-2.49.3.source.tar.bz2
de-SEAMONKEY_2_49_3_RELEASE.tar.bz2

The compilation process went without problems
but the installer aborted installation with following error message.

Error:
/root/SM-2.49.3-SOURCE/seamonkey-2.49.3/obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu/suite/installer/package-manifest:40:
Missing file(s): bin/dictionaries/*
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File
"/root/SM-2.49.3-SOURCE/seamonkey-2.49.3/mozilla/toolkit/mozapps/installer/packager.py",
line 415, in <module>
    main()
  File
"/root/SM-2.49.3-SOURCE/seamonkey-2.49.3/mozilla/toolkit/mozapps/installer/packager.py",
line 367, in main
    copier.add(mozpath.join(respath, 'removed-files'), removals)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/contextlib.py", line 24, in __exit__
    self.gen.next()
  File
"/root/SM-2.49.3-SOURCE/seamonkey-2.49.3/mozilla/python/mozbuild/mozpack/errors.py",
line 131, in accumulate
    raise AccumulatedErrors()
mozpack.errors.AccumulatedErrors
/root/SM-2.49.3-SOURCE/seamonkey-2.49.3/mozilla/toolkit/mozapps/installer/packager.mk:41:
recipe for target 'stage-package' failed
make[2]: *** [stage-package] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
'/root/SM-2.49.3-SOURCE/seamonkey-2.49.3/obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu/suite/installer'
/root/SM-2.49.3-SOURCE/seamonkey-2.49.3/mozilla/../suite/build.mk:16: recipe
for target 'install' failed
make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
'/root/SM-2.49.3-SOURCE/seamonkey-2.49.3/obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu'
client.mk:404: recipe for target 'install' failed
make: *** [install] Error 2
# 

Seamonkey and the language package doesn't contain dictionaries folder and
dictionaries
but it seems that installer is looking for it and aborted installation if not
present.
So I edited the manifest and commented the "dictionaries" line out

[@AB_CD@]
@RESPATH@/chrome/@AB_CD@@JAREXT@
@RESPATH@/chrome/@AB_CD@.manifest
@RESPATH@/defaults/messenger/mailViews.dat
@RESPATH@/defaults/profile/bookmarks.html
@RESPATH@/defaults/profile/chrome/*
@RESPATH@/defaults/profile/mimeTypes.rdf
@RESPATH@/defaults/profile/panels.rdf
; @RESPATH@/dictionaries/*
@RESPATH@/hyphenation/*

Now intallation went without problems.
I don't know whether this is the reason in your case too.

Best greetings
Norman