winetest problems

James Hawkins truiken at gmail.com
Tue May 6 16:46:01 CDT 2008


On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Paul Millar <paul at astro.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>  On Saturday 03 May 2008 01:38:07 James Hawkins wrote:
>  > I'm trying to fix the failing cross tests, but we haven't had a
>  > winetest build on Paul Millar's server in a few days.
>
>  Just to mention that gaps will appear if the winetest.exe builds but hasn't
>  changed.  As Paul (Vriens) says, the log files should indicate if there's a
>  problem:
>
>         http://quisquiliae.physics.gla.ac.uk/cross/logs/
>
>  > [...] a recent commit has broken the build.
>
>  Yes.  It's the usual story: some new tests were added that test some functions
>  that MinGW w32api doesn't support.  As it happens, the breakage coincided
>  with my spending a long weekend without Internet access.
>
>  The problem appears to be fixed now and a new winetest.exe should be
>  available.
>
>  [...]
>
> > Which (I assume) is usually fixed by Paul Millar's win32api custom
>  > patches.
>
>  Yup.  I try to provide a tar-ball of these patches "every so often", see:
>         http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/paulm/Cross/
>
>  I must point out that there is a group of us who do this share the patches and
>  the vast, vast majority of the patches are not by me.
>

Thanks a lot Paul and everyone else who contributes to this!

-- 
James Hawkins



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