Regression testing

Daniel Jelinski djelinski1 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 12 16:58:57 CDT 2012


2012/4/12 Scott Ritchie <scott at open-vote.org>:
> On 4/12/12 1:23 AM, Daniel Jeliński wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>> I am trying to get Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio to work
>> flawlessly under Wine. For the most part I create and triage related bug
>> reports, but recently I also started tinkering with code, specifically
>> with comctl library, which I am most familiar with.
>>
>> Back on subject. I thought I found a regression - on Wine 1.4 package
>> downloaded from launchpad the "New query" button works fine, while on my
>> compiled Wine it produces an error. So I did:
>>
>> git reset --hard wine-1.4
>> make
>>
>> and, surprisingly, I still had the problem with the compiled version.
>> However after some combination of deleting leftover files, running make
>> clean, make depend and make the button started working, so I started
>> bisecting, hoping for the best. At some point I started getting bad
>> versions, and every subsequent compile was bad - even after I ended
>> bisecting and returned to wine-1.4, the button still did not work (and
>> it still works under packaged Wine - I use the same install for all
>> tests). This time make clean && make depend && make did not help.
>>
>
> Packaged Wine might be different for a few reasons:
>
> 1) It is a hybrid 32+64 build, which you can't get in one step on Ubuntu
> 12.04 anymore
> 2) It uses GCC-4.5 (12.04 default is 4.6)
> 3) It has one small patch for fonts (shouldn't matter in your case)
> 4) It's built in a clean environment on the build daemon
> 5) It's installed and run out of tree.
>
> Thanks,
> Scott Ritchie

I eventually compiled a wine version that behaves like the packaged
one - git clean did the trick. Also I'm still on 11.10 (waiting for a
final release of 12.04).

By the way I've got the results of bisection. The first bad commit was
"atl80: New dll.". I guess this won't be an easy fix...

Daniel



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