Subject: Re: wine/pthread broken in netbsd 4 beta
To: Brian de Alwis <bsd@cs.ubc.ca>
From: Simon Truss <simon@bigblue.demon.co.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/14/2007 23:37:51
Brian de Alwis wrote:
> Unfortunately Wine doesn't work under NetBSD.  There are multiple
> PRs currently open:
> 
>     pkg/32800: wine's wineprefixcreate script hangs
>     pkg/33970: winecfg (part of wine pkg) core dumps
>     pkg/30917: Wine will not run out of the box

Thanks, I looked but didn't see :-/

> 32800 has the most detail.  It appears wine *did* work until Oct
> 2006 (by copying a ~/.wine populated from FreeBSD or Linux), but
> no longer works.

If you know more than the PRs are you saying that the Q3 and Q4 branches 
are broken for NetBSD then? If so I will try patching an old pkgsrc/wine 
into Q4 and see how far I get. Then there is something that I can 
compare against to find the cause.

Simon