[Wine] Questions about git and building wine

[Austin English]

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 11:18 PM, john.moonsugar
<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> I was asked to try a regression test (http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting) to see if the bug I am seeing now is not present when I revert to a previous version of wine.
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> So, my first question is, how do I revert to a previous version of wine? I'm on Ubuntu 8.04, so it would be nice if there was an apt-get command I could use. I've tried "apt-get install wine-0.9.59", but that doesn't work. No longer in the repo I guess.
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> I presumed that I was supposed to build 0.9.59 from git. But I don't know how to do that, and I haven't found any specific instructions on how to do that.
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> I tried to interpolate from various other instructions and came up with:
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> git clone git://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git wine-git
> cd wine-git
> git checkout wine-0.9.59
> git reset --hard wine-0.9.59
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> So I do the above commands and cat the file VERSION and it tells me:
> Wine version 0.9.59
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> That looks like what I want. I don't want to overwrite my current wine install, so I add the option "--prefix=/usr/local/wine" to configure, and I do the configure and make depend and make and make install. Everything builds and installs fine.
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> I run /usr/local/wine/bin/wine --version and it prints out 1.1.2. I was expecting 0.9.59. Clearly I've screwed up, but I'm lost at this point.
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> I'm pretty unfamiliar with git. I have passing familiarity with all the configure and make stuff.
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> It would really help me if someone could give an easy recipe to follow to build and install multiple older versions of wine so I could do testing.
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> Thanks!
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You don't need to do a make install, that'll overwrite your previous
version. Just run wine from the git directory.