The build documentation applies to comm-central.
It will probably work for comm-beta since it's relatively similar to comm-central.
Building an ESR version gets complicated the further out from its initial release. The provided tools like mach bootstrap and --enable-bootstrap don't always work. Official builds are pinned to specific compiler versions and don't really get updated unless necessary. And "bootstrap" mode is not used.
There seems to be a growing number of people rebuilding Thunderbird ESR versions for one reason or another, it would help to have some documentation that doesn't involve "use bootstrap".
The build documentation applies to comm-central. It will probably work for comm-beta since it's relatively similar to comm-central.
Building an ESR version gets complicated the further out from its initial release. The provided tools like
mach bootstrapand--enable-bootstrapdon't always work. Official builds are pinned to specific compiler versions and don't really get updated unless necessary. And "bootstrap" mode is not used.There seems to be a growing number of people rebuilding Thunderbird ESR versions for one reason or another, it would help to have some documentation that doesn't involve "use bootstrap".