[Wine] Performing a Regression Test

[zac]

Hello everyone!

I've been trying to perform a regression test, following the instructions at http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting . I've never done this before, and looks really complicated to me, but I must do it.

I suppose I've just finished compiling Wine. I ran 'CC="ccache gcc" ./configure --verbose && make depend && make' and then a lot of stuff happened and now it's over.

The next step seems to be to 'test for the bug'. I read the following note, but I'd really appreciate if someone could help me understand it a bit better, 'cause I'm new to this:


> It is not a good idea to run make install after compiling as you'll be testing several different versions of Wine, and it may interfere with any already-installed Wine. To make sure that you're running the right Wine, use the full path to it (i.e. ~/wine-git/wine instead of just wine).
> Once Wine's compiled, test for the bug. To be safe, we want to test with a clean .wine directory.


I'm sorry, but... What exactly should I do now to perform the test with a clean .wine directory? I don't really understand this very well. Should I try to install the software I'm running with each version of wine? How exactly? What exactly is a clean .wine directory?

Sorry to disturb you with so many basic questions...

Thank you very much for your attention and help!

Zac