[Bug 32859] Mathematica 8 and Windowscodecs (WIC) installer reliably crash with heap corruption or livelock in libX11

[wine-bugs at winehq.org]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32859

--- Comment #6 from Anastasius Focht <focht at gmx.net> 2013-04-16 17:48:48 CDT ---
Hello Austin,

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Actually, it's fixed here in X 1.13.3.
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Ubuntu 12.10, Wine 1.5.28 crashes the same way (heap corruption).
Fedora 18, Wine 1.5.24 works (if winetricks recipe is manually fixed).

So people stuck on older distros are left out in the cold.

Just for completeness...

Wine introduced builtin "windowscodecsext.dll" starting with wine-1.5.24 which
happens to be in the list of files to be checked for updates.

update_winxp.inf:

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[Test.WindowsCodecsVer.Section]
    NotPresentOp=CheckFilever,CopyAlways.System32.Files,WindowsCodecs.dll
   
LessOrEqualOp=CheckFilever,CopyAlways.System32.Files,WindowsCodecs.dll,<=,%WIC_FILE_VERSION%
    Display_String="Newer version of update is already on the system."

[Test.WindowsCodecsExtVer.Section]
    NotPresentOp=CheckFilever,CopyAlways.System32.Files,WindowsCodecsExt.dll
   
LessOrEqualOp=CheckFilever,CopyAlways.System32.Files,WindowsCodecsExt.dll,<=,%WIC_FILE_VERSION%
    Display_String="Newer version of update is already on the system."

[Test.WMPhotoVer.Section]
    NotPresentOp=CheckFilever,CopyAlways.System32.Files,WMPhoto.dll
   
LessOrEqualOp=CheckFilever,CopyAlways.System32.Files,WMPhoto.dll,<=,%WIC_FILE_VERSION%
    Display_String="Newer version of update is already on the system."

[Test.PhotoMetadataHandlerVer.Section]
   
NotPresentOp=CheckFilever,CopyAlways.System32.Files,PhotoMetadataHandler.dll
   
LessOrEqualOp=CheckFilever,CopyAlways.System32.Files,PhotoMetadataHandler.dll,<=,%WIC_FILE_VERSION%
    Display_String="Newer version of update is already on the system."
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You need to remove "WindowsCodecsExt.dll" placeholder from WINEPREFIX before
running the installer.
This prevents winetricks failure "Note: command 'wine wic_x86_enu.exe /passive'
returned status 67.  Aborting.".

Regards

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