How to stop gecko and mono popups while git bisecting?

André Hentschel nerv at dawncrow.de
Mon Jun 3 17:12:08 CDT 2013


On 03.06.2013 23:48, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> I just finished a git bisect to establish the cause of the git
> regression given by http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33715. My
> detailed report concerning the result of the bisect appears there, but
> I have an additional question concerning the git bisect process
> itself.
> 
> I pretty much follow the recommendations in
> http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting, but I like to completely
> remove my WINEPREFIX directory as the first step in my bisect test
> script to eliminate the possibility that some unclean cached result
> there is causing issues.  But after a particular version of wine is
> built, that test script goes on to test it using wineconsole which has
> to populate WINEPREFIX itself (which is fine) since I removed it for a
> reason, but that step is accompanied by some popups concerning what I
> want to do about downloading mono (not available on Debian testing)
> and gecko (available on Debian testing, but I haven't figured out how
> to make the ./configure step of the wine build recognize that).  I
> don't mind the popups, but I do mind having to answer the questions
> posed by them (say through the night) as the automated git bisect
> proceeds.
> 
> For the case where wineconsole populates the WINEPREFIX directory for
> the first time, is there a way to configure wine or run wineconsole so
> those popups that require me answering a question can be eliminated?
> 

You could download the recent gecko and mono files and place them in the appropriate places as described in http://wiki.winehq.org/Gecko
Or you create a wineprefix after you removed it, but without a valid display set:
DISPLAY=none wine wineboot




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