Fwd: Ubuntu 12.04 (version#2, drop previous mail)

[Scott Ritchie]

On 4/30/12 6:24 AM, Julius Schwartzenberg wrote:
> Eric Pouech wrote:
>> Le 29/04/2012 22:44, Eric Pouech a écrit :
>>> for the devels having upgraded their boxes to ubuntu 12.04, here's a
>>> couple of stuff I had to do, especially to get 32bit wine compile
>>> This could be useful if you want to have a dual x86_64 : i386 setup
>>>
>>> this is an updated version to what I already sent to scott ritchie
>>> of course this is not a step by step installation
>> I forgot to mention that ubuntu devels did a crappy job in 12.04
>> I'm really starting to get angry at their inability to take care of
>> upward compat in what they do
>
> Maybe looking at 'sudo apt-get build-dep wine' and the Wine packaging
> scripts will also reveal what's needed to build 32-bit Wine on Ubuntu
> 12.04 64-bit.
>
> In general the 12.04 release still has loads of bugs however. It seems
> the developers couldn't manage to look over all the reported bugs
> anymore before the release, but decided to release anyhow. They probably
> only focused on the crash bugs, because there are not many crashes, but
> many things do not work yet as they should. I expect 12.04.1 will
> contain a very significant amount of fixes.
>

It's sort of a consequence of time-based releases, unfortunately.  We 
were very conservative about new versions of stuff that got into 12.04 
to try and minimize new bugs, but stuff invariably comes up.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie