http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21773
--- Comment #11 from Ian Goddard iang@austonley.org.uk 2010-02-27 06:06:19 --- (In reply to comment #10)
You've been given number of ways how you can run tests within newly compiled environment:
- ./wine /path/to/winetest-latest.exe
- ./wine winetest
- make test
All of the above _guarantees_ to use wine from the current source tree and not system installed one. Of course in all cases you have to start with clean wineprefix and make sure wine_gecko is available.
Just read your last sentence again: "Of course in all cases you have to start with clean wineprefix and make sure wine_gecko is available."
If you simply tell people to take any of the above 3 you do not assure that the proviso in that sentence will be met. That means that you cannot trust any of the regression-testing results you get back from the community.
Simply using the wine from the current source tree isn't enough. Good testing practice just isn't that simple.
Ian