[Bug 40811] New: WINESERVER variable is only used if @bindir@/ wineserver does not exist
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40811 Bug ID: 40811 Summary: WINESERVER variable is only used if @bindir@/wineserver does not exist Product: Wine Version: 1.9.12 Hardware: x86 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: wineserver Assignee: wine-bugs(a)winehq.org Reporter: jre.winesim(a)gmail.com Distribution: --- Wine seems to *always* use @bindir@/wineserver as wineserver if it exists. The environment variable WINESERVER seems to be ignored as long as the former exists. $ alias pswineserver='ps aux|grep wineserver|grep -v grep|sed "s|.* ||"' $ sudo cp /opt/wine-devel/bin/wineserver /opt/wine-devel/test/ $ pswineserver $ WINESERVER="/opt/wine-devel/test/wineserver" /opt/wine-devel/bin/winecfg $ pswineserver /opt/wine-devel/bin/wineserver $ sudo rm /opt/wine-devel/bin/wineserver $ pswineserver $ WINESERVER="/opt/wine-devel/test/wineserver" /opt/wine-devel/bin/winecfg $ pswineserver /opt/wine-devel/test/wineserver Found in winehq-devel (1.9.12~stretch) from winehq, and wine (1.8.2-1) and wine-development (1.9.12-1) from Debian. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40811 Jens Reyer <jre.winesim(a)gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jre.winesim(a)gmail.com -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40811 Ken Sharp <imwellcushtymelike@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEEDINFO Severity|normal |enhancement Keywords| |download, source Ever confirmed|0 |1 --- Comment #1 from Ken Sharp <imwellcushtymelike@gmail.com> --- This is still true in Wine 11.13, but why would you want this not to be the case? WINESERVER= is useful for telling Wine where to find its wineserver if it is not in the standard location. Is there a reason to override this logic? -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40811 --- Comment #2 from Jens Reyer <jre.winesim@gmail.com> --- Generally as best practice in coding I'd say values of variables should always be used first, before trying any logic. I don't remember exactly why I filed this bug, but at the time I was Debian maintainer for the Wine packages. It was either something about the Debian alternatives system, where wine-stable and wine-development may both be installed and the user can choose which one provides wine. So /usr/bin/wine is a link to either /usr/bin/wine-stable or /usr/bin/wine-development, the same for wineserver. Since those are either wrapper scripts or links to BINDIR (/usr/lib/wine-stable or /usr/lib/wine-development), I see no real issue here. Otherwise (maybe what led me to filing this bug) I might see this scenario: if wine-stable points to wine, but the user wants to test something with wine-development: /usr/bin/wine-development would use /usr/bin/wineserver which points to /usr/bin/wineserver-stable, which is bad. Another scenario with the old WoW64 setup back then, where the 32-bit binaries were built on i386-buildservers, and 64-bit binaries on amd64-buildservers and the resulting packages co-installed. There I might have BINDIR/wineserver being a wrapper script to call either the binary wineserver32 or wineserver64. This wrapper script might do something else, then what I want when I call wine and can set the WINESERVER variable. Long story short, although I solved the issue for the Debian packaging in the end, there was some issue that prompted me to filing this bug. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40811 Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resolution|--- |WONTFIX Status|NEEDINFO |RESOLVED --- Comment #3 from Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org> --- Actually WINESERVER already takes precedence over @bindir@/wineserver and PATH lookups. It doesn't take precedence over the ntdll-relative lookup, because that's the most likely to do the right thing in all kinds of setups, and it avoids lots of user errors. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40811 Austin English <austinenglish@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |CLOSED --- Comment #4 from Austin English <austinenglish@gmail.com> --- Closing. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
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