Are OpenBSD bugs worth filing?

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Fri Dec 26 18:35:28 CST 2008


Austin English wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 2:16 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Some of us on wine-users are trying to get Wine to install on OpenBSD.
>> First, of course, we need to get it to compile on OpenBSD ...
>>
>> Are bugs on this platform considered valid reportable bugs? I couldn't
>> find any OpenBSD bugs on a quick search in Bugzilla.
>>
>> State of things: it doesn't compile cleanly yet, and ./configure seems
>> to fail to recognise a lot of libs that are in fact present.
>>
>>
>> (I realise that running Windows on OpenBSD may cause a
>> matter-antimatter explosion as the two security models meet ... But it
>> has *hack value*!)
>>
>>
>> - d.
>>
>>
>>
>>     
>
> File bugs on compiling issues, if you're sure they're bugs in wine and
> not bugs in OpenBSD.
>
> FWIW, I'm working on trying this, but installing it in VirtualBox
> gives segfaults galore. I'm going to try putting it on a spare HDD on
> bare metal and see if that works better.
>
>   
David:

File a bug when you think it is Wine related as it pertains to the 
ability to build on that platform.

Austin:

OpenBSD does not like virualization of any kind.  VMWare does not 
support it, from what I remember.

James McKenzie




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