[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 #7 from Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> 2013-04-16 20:55:31 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> Hello Austin,
> 
> --- quote ---
> Actually, it's fixed here in X 1.13.3.
> --- quote ---
> 
> 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:
> 
> --- snip ---
> [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."
> --- snip ---
> 
> 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

Howdy Anastasius,

Yes, I noticed this as well, fixed upstream, thanks.

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