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