As an attempt to workaround bug 450781, I added |--disable-xpfe-components|. It failed ("as expected") on {{ nsRDFResource.cpp /bin/perl .../mozilla/config/version_win.pl [...] Creating Resource file: module.res rc.exe -r -DZLIB_INTERNAL -DZLIB_DLL=1 -DMOZ_PLUGINS -DMOZ_XPINSTALL -DMOZ_JSDEBUGGER -DMOZ_PREF_EXTENSIONS -DMOZ_AUTH_EXTENSION -DMOZ_PERMISSIONS -DMOZ_UNIVERSALCHARDET -DICON_DECODER -DMOZ_SPELLCHECK -DMOZ_ZIPWRITER -DMOZILLA_INTERNAL_API -DMOZ_SUITE=1 -DSUITE_USING_XPFE_DM=1 -DOSTYPE=\"WINNT5.0\" -DOSARCH=WINNT -D_IMPL_NS_COM -D_IMPL_NS_STRINGAPI -DEXPORT_XPT_API -DEXPORT_XPTC_API -D_IMPL_NS_GFX -D_IMPL_NS_WIDGET -DIMPL_XREAPI -I.../mozilla/widget/src/windows -I.../mozilla/intl/unicharutil/util -I.../mozilla/config -I.../mozilla/widget/src/windows -I.../mozilla/widget/src/build -I.../mozilla/toolkit/library -I. -I../../dist/include/xpcom -I../../dist/include/string -I../../dist/include/zlib -I../../dist/include/xulapp -I../../dist/include/libreg -I../../dist/include/widget -I../../dist/include/gfx -I../../dist/include/uconv -I../../dist/include/unicharutil -I../../dist/include/rdf -I../../dist/include/rdfutil -I../../dist/include -I../../dist/include/libxul -I../../dist/include/nspr -Fomodule.res .../mozilla/toolkit/library/module.rc make[5]: *** No rule to make target `../../staticlib/components/tkhstory.lib', needed by `xul.dll'. Stop. }} Is it expected to fail on that file ? What would it take to fix this case ? Related to bug 397277 comment 5 ??

Please don't go filing bugs after having used random configure options.

Well, I didn't think my choice was that random, but anyway. Fwiw, a SeaMonkey build with |--disable-xpfe-components| only: *completes, *starts, up to the profile manager, *after it, fails with {{ Error launching browser window:TypeError: Components.classes['@mozilla.org/appshell/component/browser/instance;1'] is undefined }}