Re: wine

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2025 at 10:56:24AM +0000, nia wrote:
> Hi, 32-bit wine has been broken for a year (since the update to wine 9.0). 
> 
> This is a pretty big deal since a lot of binaries people want to run
> are 32-bit.
> 
> People keep asking me about the old version, so if there isn't a
> consensus to downgrade the package or a quick fix I'd reimport
> emulators/wine5, which was very stable.

I've got no interest in debugging wine, but since people are asking.

The package was updated a year ago without testing on i386.
I tried to fix it.

https://pkgsrc.se/files.php?messageId=20241205080122.D2C63FC1C%cvs.NetBSD.org@localhost

I did not finish due to exhaustion, $life, etc.

Other people noticed.

https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/1590-wine9-via-pkgin-repo-i386-netbsd-101

https://gnats.netbsd.org/59567

<shoe_monkey> Has anyone here used the WINE package, on NetBSD?
<shoe_monkey> Essentially, is the pkgsrc WINE facing regressions; or have
the issues always been there.