February 2003 - Wine-devel - list.winehq.org

Was reading through the newest news and wondered about Transgaming's fix.
by Joe Millenbach 25 Feb '03

25 Feb '03

Did I read that correctly, in that they fixed whatever issues Wine has with glibc 2.3? So that issue with threads being different would be fixed with this? And if the above is true then are they planning to submit this to the Wine project or is this only for thier version? Thanks for your time, Joe Millenbach _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus

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Re: Spam/Bounce-Mail
by Dan Kegel 25 Feb '03

25 Feb '03

Joerg Frings-Fuerst wrote: > first I say sorry for your trouble with my bounce-mails. > > This weekend I setup my new Mail-Backupserver. After this work I test a new > version of my Spamcheck-script. In this script I call "rblcheck". My mistake > was the test via list.dsbl.org. I don't mind -- it revealed a bug in my email setup! - Dan -- Dan Kegel http://www.kegel.com http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=78045

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Re: Don't use -Wpointer-arith if it produces excessive warnings
by Dmitry Timoshkov 25 Feb '03

25 Feb '03

"Mike McCormack" <mike(a)codeweavers.com> wrote: > On Slackware 8.1, this caused a screenful of warnings for *every* file > compiled, which makes it difficult to see important warnings. Same on RH 6.2. But it's actually bug(s) in string.h and a better way IMHO is just fix it, instead of silencing warnings if a user is *really* annoyed by that avalanche of warnings. -- Dmitry.

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Re: WCMD AutoExec patch
by Eric Pouech 24 Feb '03

24 Feb '03

Dave Pickles wrote: > As discussed on Wine-devel recently this patch allows wcmd to execute a file > "autoexec.wine" if it exists in the root directory of the default drive. I think we'd better shouldn't we look in <%sysdir%>\system32\autoexec.wine instead (that's where NT puts the autoexec.nt files that cmd.exe loads on startup) ? A+ -- Eric Pouech

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Re: wine/dlls/x11drv x11drv_main.c
by liu spider 24 Feb '03

24 Feb '03

It crashed every time when I closed an app, not just "sometimes" :( And I think maybe exchange the calling order of XCloseIM and XCloseDisplay is a better method than just comments out XCloseIM ( I think this will lead to some other problems). --- Alexandre Julliard <julliard(a)wine.codeweavers.com> wrote: > ChangeSet ID: 7168 > CVSROOT: /opt/cvs-commit > Module name: wine > Changes by: julliard(a)wine.codeweavers.com 2003/01/29 > 19:08:53 > > Modified files: > dlls/x11drv : x11drv_main.c > > Log message: > XCloseIM sometimes crashes in Xlib, don't call it. > > Patch: http://cvs.winehq.com/patch.py?id=7168 > > Old revision New revision Changes Path > 1.67 1.68 +1 -1 > wine/dlls/x11drv/x11drv_main.c > > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

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Re: Crashes in OSSs audio.c on FreeBSD
by Eric Pouech 24 Feb '03

24 Feb '03

> BSD is probably doing the same thing, but nevertheless, -STABLE (i.e. > FreeBSD 4.x) has a bug in the pcm-driver (I think) which makes mapping > the buffer write-only impossible (at least for me). > > FreeBSD 5.x does not have that problem and sadly the pcm-code between > 4.x and 5.x is virtually the same. I think I remember BSD folks speaking of mmap changes... can someone confirm ? >>>+#ifndef __FreeBSD__ >>> /* for some reason, es1371 and sblive! sometimes have junk in here. >>> * clear it, or we get junk noise */ >>> /* some libc implementations are buggy: their memset reads from the >>> buffer... >>>@@ -1826,6 +1832,9 @@ >>> /* in all cases, fill the remaining bytes */ >>> while (len-- != 0) *p1++ = 0; >>> } >>>+#else >>>+ memset(wwo->mapping,0, wwo->maplen); >>>+#endif >> >>you shouldn't need this chunk > > > I know, this has nothing to do with mmap()ing the buffer, but it looks > like FreeBSDs libc doesn't have the bug with memset(), so I just used > that instead. sure, not all Linux distros have this bug, but it creates a new code path, which is bad for maintenance... so leaving the code as it is, is a better option A+ -- Eric Pouech

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Rebuilding font retrics each time Wine starts.
by J. Grant 24 Feb '03

24 Feb '03

Hi, Is there a reason the "font metrics" are rebuilt every day or so? (when I start to run a program with wine) I am using cvs 20030115 Regards JG

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Re: Users Guide - added basic usage section
by Dan Kegel 24 Feb '03

24 Feb '03

Mike Hearn wrote: > + <para> > + Some programs install associated control panel applets, examples of this would be > + Internet Explorer and QuickTime. You can access the Wine control panel by running: > + </para> > + > + <screen> > + <prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>wine control</userinput> > + </screen> > + > + <para> > + which will open a window with the installed control panel applets in it, as in Windows. > + </para> Um, I tried running wine control and it started running, then exited silently, presumably because no apps have installed any controllet. Either we need to fix that doc, or we need to add a controllet for wine itself, so the list is never empty, or we need to make control.exe put up a dialog box saying "no control panel thingies installed". - Dan -- Dan Kegel http://www.kegel.com http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=78045

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Re: x11drv, ntdll separation
by David Fraser 24 Feb '03

24 Feb '03

Johan Gill wrote: > Mike Hearn wrote: > >>> And I have it in my tree :) It should be ready for submission in a >>> few months from now. >>> >> >> >> Hvae you checked that it wouldn't be easier to merge in the TransGaming >> implementation? It seems daft to duplicate work if that's the case... >> >> >> >> > It is their work, but I'm doing heavy changes. What stage is the implementation currently at? According to the TransGaming docs, there are still a number of functions to fill in... I would be interested in seeing a patch no matter how much/little is implemented ... because my main aim in getting rid of the fault handler is so that the x11drv can be ported to Windows... David

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Re: Users Guide - added basic usage section
by Keith Matthews 24 Feb '03

24 Feb '03

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:17:41 +0100 Andreas Mohr <andi(a)rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de> wrote: > And BTW: why is it that once you decide to do some major work, > EVERYBODY suddenly happens to come out of the eternally dark and dangerous > and forgotten woods?? ;-) > Looks like murphy wins again.

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