regression: msvc4.0 install dies sooner now
I found an unopened copy of msvc++ 4.0 at a garage sale last year for $5, couldn't resist. Today I finally tried to install it under Wine. wine-20020605-2 (rh8): installer started; when I clicked on 'Install Visual C++', it put up a 'Installing... please wait' dialog, then failed with a 'Can't read version info from C:\windows\kernel386.drv' message (more or less), then hung. wine-20021125 (from source): installer started; when I clicked on 'Install Visual C++', it hung. Looks like a regression to me. Logs of --debugmsg +relay are up at http://www.kegel.com/msvc4setup-wine20020605.log.bz2 http://www.kegel.com/msvc4setup-wine20021125.log.bz2 The latter file is 28MB uncompressed, 512KB compressed. I'm now building the intermediate releases of wine to see if I can narrow down when the regression occurred. - Dan
Dan Kegel wrote:
I found an unopened copy of msvc++ 4.0 at a garage sale last year for $5, couldn't resist. Today I finally tried to install it under Wine.
OK, more details. I switched to testing the simplest function of msvc's setup program: the exit button. All I do is click on the exit button. (Easy, right?) It works fine in Wine-20020804, but fails in Wine-20020904 and later. Logs at http://www.kegel.com/msvc4-setup-wine-20020804.ok.log.bz2 http://www.kegel.com/msvc4-setup-wine-20020904.bad.log.bz2 The interesting part is the 1000 lines after the line containing 'Button'; it looks like in the later wines, the program gets stuck in a WaitForSingleObject, maybe. I have to kill Wine to recover. Next step appears to be for me to download ftp://ftp.winehq.com/pub/wine/wine-cvsdirs-20020804.tar.gz and start fetching the cvs tree as of particular days in August, and figure out exactly which commit caused the regression. What cvs command do I use to do that (it's not documented on winehq.com, I think)? Or is there a better way? Thanks, Dan
On Monday 02 December 2002 01:19 am, Dan Kegel wrote:
Dan Kegel wrote:
I found an unopened copy of msvc++ 4.0 at a garage sale last year for $5, couldn't resist. Today I finally tried to install it under Wine.
OK, more details. I switched to testing the simplest function of msvc's setup program: the exit button. All I do is click on the exit button. (Easy, right?) It works fine in Wine-20020804, but fails in Wine-20020904 and later.
Logs at http://www.kegel.com/msvc4-setup-wine-20020804.ok.log.bz2 http://www.kegel.com/msvc4-setup-wine-20020904.bad.log.bz2
The interesting part is the 1000 lines after the line containing 'Button'; it looks like in the later wines, the program gets stuck in a WaitForSingleObject, maybe. I have to kill Wine to recover.
Next step appears to be for me to download ftp://ftp.winehq.com/pub/wine/wine-cvsdirs-20020804.tar.gz and start fetching the cvs tree as of particular days in August, and figure out exactly which commit caused the regression. What cvs command do I use to do that (it's not documented on winehq.com, I think)? Or is there a better way?
Thanks, Dan
cvs is the "right way" although I forget how it's done. I've used tkcvs for this sort of thing. it's a horrible anachronistic kinda gui but it has a really useful graphical view of each file's history in there that can be a huge help when tracking down a particular change. A picture is worth 1000 keystrokes sometimes... -- gmt
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Greg Turner wrote:
cvs is the "right way" although I forget how it's done.
For the record, Gerard's writeup on how to do CVS regression hunting is available here: http://cvs.winehq.com/cvsweb/wine/documentation/cvs-regression.sgml ---- Paul Millar
Paul Millar wrote:
For the record, Gerard's writeup on how to do CVS regression hunting is available here:
http://cvs.winehq.com/cvsweb/wine/documentation/cvs-regression.sgml
Thanks! I guess http://www.winehq.org/download/ should link to http://www.winehq.org/Docs/wine-devel/cvs-regression.shtml at the end of the section "Getting Wine from CVS", maybe? - Dan
On December 2, 2002 03:04 am, Greg Turner wrote:
cvs is the "right way" although I forget how it's done. I've used tkcvs for this sort of thing. it's a horrible anachronistic kinda gui but it has a really useful graphical view of each file's history in there that can be a huge help when tracking down a particular change. A picture is worth 1000 keystrokes sometimes...
BTW, anyone willing to take wincvs for a spin. Is a very nice CVS frontend, for those of use addicted to clicking about, and a perfect target for Wine! http://www.wincvs.org -- Dimi.
Dan Kegel wrote:
Dan Kegel wrote:
I found an unopened copy of msvc++ 4.0 at a garage sale last year for $5, couldn't resist. Today I finally tried to install it under Wine.
OK, more details. I switched to testing the simplest function of msvc's setup program: the exit button. All I do is click on the exit button. (Easy, right?) It works fine in Wine-20020804, but fails in Wine-20020904 and later.
Following http://www.winehq.org/Docs/wine-devel/cvs-regression.shtml I managed to narrow the problem down to between 2002-08-26 and 2002-08-28. I'll narrow it down more when I get a chance. I'm sorely tempted to install http://ccache.samba.org/ or http://distcc.samba.org/ or even http://gecc.sourceforge.net/ as the 25 minutes it takes to do a full rebuild of wine is a bit of an impediment. (Though a big, big improvement from how long it took the first time I tried to build it back in the days of 90 MHz pentiums...) - Dan
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