On 2012-12-23 21:25-0600 Austin English wrote:
On Dec 23, 2012 7:22 PM, "Alan W. Irwin" irwin@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote:
The subject line pretty much says it all. Running MinGW/gcc under wineconsole for any simple test programme should demonstrate the issue for wine-1.5.20 which is not present in wine-1.5.19 and a fairly large selection of 1.5.x and MinGW versions I have tried over the last year or so.
I would be happy to supply more details if there is any difficulty replicating this reversion.
Alan
Please run a regression test and file a bug at http://bugs.winehq.org.
No thank you.
The last time I wrote a wine bug report (with a test case and a patch to fix the problem no less), wine developers seemed content with the fact that that bug had been reported. They did not actually fix the problem until I made a special personal appeal to one of them more than a year later. So eventually there was a happy ending there, but the impression I got from that experience is that Wine bug reports for even the most obvious issues like that one are pretty much a waste of everyone's time unless and until a Wine developer takes responsibility. Of course, in that case the bug reporting system is worthwhile since it can make a permanent record of all the events leading to a solution.
In this case, I would like a Wine developer to take responsibility as well for what I think is an obvious issue with 1.5.20 by verifying the issue, and then taking any further development steps they want to take concerning this issue. Or perhaps there will be an even more obvious symptom of the problem with 1.5.20 that will lead to a solution quicker than if someone follows the MinGW segfault symptom that I have found. In other words, I am willing to help out Wine by reporting the issue informally here, and let Wine developers make their best judgement of what to do about the issue, but that is about it.
Sorry I have to be ruthless about this, but I do not want to get involved in wine development or go through a bunch of Wine bug-reporting hoops since I need to reserve my development efforts for my own free software projects.
Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin
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