WineHQ upgrade breaking dinput8:dinput?

[Michael Stefaniuc]

On 03/23/2016 12:17 PM, Francois Gouget wrote:
> 
> This is a truly weird one. dinput8:dinput start failing on the 17th, the 
> day after WineHQ was upgraded:
> https://test.winehq.org/data/tests/dinput8:dinput.html
> 
> What makes this weird is that:
>  * There has been no change to these tests between bd332f53f2d7 and 
>    966a07149a02. In fact the last patch goes back to 2013.
>    So it's not a bad patch.
> 
>  * The failures happen on every 32 bit test environment, from XP to 
>    Windows 10, VM or not, TestBot or not. Only 64 bit is spared.
> 
>  * I compiled a dinput8_crosstest.exe binary bd332f53f2d7 which 
>    was not failing according to the test.winehq.org results. But all I 
>    got is failures:
>    - 887b445bb878, 8th, 0 test.winehq.org failures, 13 here:
>      https://testbot.winehq.org/JobDetails.pl?Key=21611
>    - bd332f53f2d7, 16th, 0 test.winehq.org failures, 13 here:
>      https://testbot.winehq.org/JobDetails.pl?Key=21610
>    - 329dfee70c35, 22nd, 13 test.winehq.org failures, 13 here
>      https://testbot.winehq.org/JobDetails.pl?Key=21609
>    My MinGW compiler is more recent than the one WineHQ was using before 
>    the upgrade however. So I think this points to a compiler-related 
>    issue.
> 
> The official WineTest binaries are build on WineHQ so I suspect the 
> MinGW upgrade is somehow responsible for the new failures.
Well, it wasn't just a version upgrade but a change from mingw to the
mingw-w64 fork. Afaik those two diverged quite a bit.

bye
	michael