wineinstall fails after cvs update

[Dustin Navea]

--- degs <degs at giantblob.com> wrote:
> On Friday 10 May 2002 21:03, Andriy Palamarchuk
> wrote:
> > Hi Degs,
> >
> > --- degs <degs at giantblob.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I find tools/wineinstall frequently fails in
> > > ./configure when trying to
> > > rebuild Wine after a "cvs update". I only seem
> to be
> > > able to fix this by
> > > blowing away the whole tree and re-fetching it
> with
> > > "cvs checkout". Is
> > > wineinstall the Right Way to build Wine when one
> is
> > > trying to hack on it?
> >
> > Wineinstall not only installs wine, but also
> > configures it. Usually you do not need to
> reconfigure
> > wine each time you refreshed source from CVS, so
> > simply run in the Wine root dorectory:
> > ./configure
> > make depend
> > make install
> >
> > or in one line:
> > ./configure && make depend && make install
> >
> > "make install" will refresh the Wine binaries, but
> > won't do anything with your existing
> configuration.
> >
> > BTW, question about installation belongs to
> > wine-users, look forward for your questions about
> > hacking ;-)
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry I wasn't very clear - its not really a
> wine-users question per se - I 
> want to be able to hack on Wine whilst keeping
> up-to-date with the 
> cvs.winehq.com version and need to know how to build
> it. I'm aware 
> wineinstall runs configure - its configure that
> fails for me. It fails 
> regardless of whether I run configure manually or
> through wineinstall so 
> wineinstall is probably a red herring.
> 
> So, my question is: what is the correct way to
> rebuild Wine after 'cvs update' 
> so that the configure *doesn't* fail? preferably
> without having to blow away 
> the whole tree, re-check out and re-merge any
> changes which I've made to it?
> 
> I'm sure this must be a common problem but I can't
> figure out how to get 
> around it - if anyone can tell me the right way to
> do this it would be really 
> handly.
> 
> BTW I know its not my changes to my local Wine tree
> which break configure as 
> I've changed nothing in that area (I've only added
> debug code to some bits of 
> GDI which are giving me jip)
> 
> thanks
> -- degs
> 

are you downloading on windows and then copying over
to linux?  if so, you will probably need a tool like
uxcook95, which fixes problems with files downloaded
in ascii (windows' preferred method of storage, even
for binary files), google search will probably bring
up a few hits...

-Dustin

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