[Bug 21773] Mail address needed to run dotests but no means to provide it

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21773





--- Comment #3 from Ian Goddard <iang at austonley.org.uk>  2010-02-21 07:56:59 ---
I always build wine from the source tree as I have to patch it to work round a
feature which for me is a show-stopping bug.

If I run dotests (and, BTW, how is anyone supposed to know it has been
deprecated if it's still sitting there in the source tree?) it runs against the
new build before that build has been make installed.

*Only* if it looks like the build won't cause trouble (and in the past several
hung in dotests so severely that I had to power-cycle the laptop) will I patch
it and then make install it.

AFAICS winetest-latest.exe will be run using the currently make installed
version of wine - which, ATM, is the *previous* version.

I'm not going to make install an untested build.  But I can't now do that using
dotests.  So I now have to do it in two stages, first run make test -k and, if
it looks OK I can make install, run winetest-latest and then patch, rerun make
and make install.

However make test -k has just hung in one of the tests.  I've no idea if, were
it running in dotests or in winetest-latest, it would hang so severely that I
wouldn't install the build.

But, knowing that there's a problem but not being able to find out how severe,
there's no way I'm going to run make install so in turn I won't be running
winetest-latest against the build so you'll never get a test report on it and
hence there's no way that you'll be able to get a handle on the problem which
the test exposed.

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