[Bug 12547] Original Civilization III does not run -- drive read error/crashes

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12547





--- Comment #15 from Matthew Schultz <mattsch at gmail.com>  2008-07-28 11:33:52 ---
(In reply to comment #14)
> (In reply to comment #13)
> > What exactly was decided on that bug?  I see a comment near the end that says
> > they're adding -fomit-frame-pointer meaning that they're adding to an exclusion
> > list of flags not to use or they found that it's not the problem?
> 
> Using -fomit-frame-pointer is the problem, I assure you because I had suffered
> it myself, using it breaks Wine protection schemes to the point that almost any
> protected app will not work even with a no-cd patch.
> 
> And the resolution of that bug report was to build Wine without
> -fomit-frame-pointer flag, because there is no point to aim for an
> imperceptible performace boost at the price of making a lot of apps unusable.
> 
> So they now (and I) make their Wine builds without -fomit-frame-pointer, and
> protected games started to work fine again.
> 

(In reply to comment #14)
> (In reply to comment #13)
> > What exactly was decided on that bug?  I see a comment near the end that says
> > they're adding -fomit-frame-pointer meaning that they're adding to an exclusion
> > list of flags not to use or they found that it's not the problem?
> 
> Using -fomit-frame-pointer is the problem, I assure you because I had suffered
> it myself, using it breaks Wine protection schemes to the point that almost any
> protected app will not work even with a no-cd patch.
> 
> And the resolution of that bug report was to build Wine without
> -fomit-frame-pointer flag, because there is no point to aim for an
> imperceptible performace boost at the price of making a lot of apps unusable.
> 
> So they now (and I) make their Wine builds without -fomit-frame-pointer, and
> protected games started to work fine again.
> 


This was a good guess as to what the problem is but I just checked it and
gentoo strips all default CXXFLAGS on the wine ebuild and replaces it with
-mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe.  So -fomit-frame-pointer is not the issue here.


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