Difficulties with Regression Testing

[James Mckenzie]

All:

I've been running regression tests to find a commit between wine-1.1.10 and wine-1.1.11 that breaks the EM_FORMATRANGE patch or to discover what I need to do to fix the patch to make it work with wine-1.1.11.  I've been following the instructions on the Regression Testing Wiki page.  I am on the fourth git bisect good and I run into two different problems:

1.  The tools/Makefile.in file gets corrupted on the fourth git bisect good.  This is unexpected as I am not aware of any changes to this file that would cause corruption.  This happens interrmittently and a git fetch sometimes causes the error that tools/Makefile.in needs to be updated to appear when I apply/remove a patch which is needed to correct wordpad, one of the programs I am using to test the EM_FORMATRANGE patch.  The build fails when attempting to build makedep.c.  The includes appear to be incorrect and do not pick up the files in the source directory thus the Wine includes are not included.
2.  Something else is causing the check.bmp file not to be found and thus the tests fail on the fourth git bisect good.   The .rc file that calls this file is located in two different directorys but the check.bmp file only exists in the tools/subdirectory.

Can anyone confirm/deny that they are experiencing the same problems with a git build?

Thank you.