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