Lotus Notes and wine and RedHat 9

[Joe Squire]

Hi

I apologize in advance for hitting the developers list. IANAD...

I had been running wine on 7.2 with Lotus Notes 5.0.11 successfully. I made 
the unfortunate discovery about RH9 and threads and wine a little too late 
after upgrading to RH9. I will be more careful next time...

Anyways, I downloaded the source (2003-05-08), and managed to configure with 
--with-nptl (as at
http://www.winehq.org/index.php?issue=164#Wine%20&%20RedHat%209.0)
make dep, make and make install it. (I am closer to a newbie than a 
developer, so this was a major achievement!).

But I ran into a problem that has already been reported at (thank you 
google)
http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2003/05/0141.html
(the issue was unresolved. Kevin rolled back to a previous wine source from 
5/1/2003).
As with that post, there had been no changes to the install in the wine 
directory. The Lotus Notes splash screen comes up. The background for Notes 
itself comes up. The password box appears, and the error happens when I 
punch in the password and hit OK.

I noted the post by Uwe at 
http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2003/05/0144.html , but
Uwe was hinting at my newbiness with "Do you know how to integrate this in 
wine?
If not, tell me to send you a patch for testing." The answer to both is No. 
Even if I received a patch, I wouldn't have a clue. I am willing to try, but 
would llikely need some hand holding...like which file, where it's located 
etc...

Again, apologies for hassling the devel list, I'm out of my depth here, but 
I will help if I can.

TIA
ws

PS: hope this helps someone else:
- after initial install and attempting to run an app thru wine, it 'hung' at 
the end of the font 'registration' (not sure it that is the right term), ie 
once it had got to 100%. X was running at about 70% cpu and wine at 30%. 
Eventually I ctrl-c'd it and rebooted.
- after trying again, i received an error about winedefault.reg. Googling 
for this didn't help me locate where it was. But it was in the most obvious 
place. The root of the source download. Ran regedit winedefault.reg
- then ran into the above.

PPS - words of encouragement. Notes is my last tie to Windows and wine is my 
saviour!

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[Uwe Bonnes]

> > > > > "Joe" == Joe Squire  writes:

Joe> Hi I apologize in advance for hitting the developers list. IANAD...

Joe> I had been running wine on 7.2 with Lotus Notes 5.0.11
    Joe> successfully. I made the unfortunate discovery about RH9 and
    Joe> threads and wine a little too late after upgrading to RH9. I will
    Joe> be more careful next time...

Joe> Anyways, I downloaded the source (2003-05-08), and managed to
    Joe> configure with --with-nptl (as at
    Joe> http://www.winehq.org/index.php?issue=164#Wine%20&%20RedHat%209.0)
    Joe> make dep, make and make install it. (I am closer to a newbie than a
    Joe> developer, so this was a major achievement!).

Joe> But I ran into a problem that has already been reported at (thank
    Joe> you google)
    Joe> http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2003/05/0141.html (the
    Joe> issue was unresolved. Kevin rolled back to a previous wine source
    Joe> from 5/1/2003).  As with that post, there had been no changes to
    Joe> the install in the wine directory. The Lotus Notes splash screen
    Joe> comes up. The background for Notes itself comes up. The password
    Joe> box appears, and the error happens when I punch in the password and
    Joe> hit OK.

Joe> I noted the post by Uwe at
    Joe> http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2003/05/0144.html , but
    Joe> Uwe was hinting at my newbiness with "Do you know how to integrate
    Joe> this in wine?  If not, tell me to send you a patch for testing."
    Joe> The answer to both is No.  Even if I received a patch, I wouldn't
    Joe> have a clue. I am willing to try, but would llikely need some hand
    Joe> holding...like which file, where it's located etc...

Hallo,

it boiled down that Andi added a lot of functions in the user32 spec file,
with no implementation provided. These functions are mostly only implemented
in recent windows version, and Notes has to cope with these functions not
available. But as we added them in the spec file, this request will be
granted, but later fails when this function should be executed.

I notified Andi, but got no feedback so long.

Bye

[Mike Hearn]

> Hallo,
>
> it boiled down that Andi added a lot of functions in the user32 spec file,
> with no implementation provided. These functions are mostly only implemented
> in recent windows version, and Notes has to cope with these functions not
> available. But as we added them in the spec file, this request will be
> granted, but later fails when this function should be executed.
>
> I notified Andi, but got no feedback so long.

Perhaps a patch should be sent that comments out these functions in the
spec file until there are implementations of them?

[Michael Stefaniuc]

On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 10:02:10AM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> > Hallo,
> >
> > it boiled down that Andi added a lot of functions in the user32 spec file,
> > with no implementation provided. These functions are mostly only implemented
> > in recent windows version, and Notes has to cope with these functions not
> > available. But as we added them in the spec file, this request will be
> > granted, but later fails when this function should be executed.
> >
> > I notified Andi, but got no feedback so long.
>
> Perhaps a patch should be sent that comments out these functions in the
> spec file until there are implementations of them?

Alexandre already applied such a patch to cvs.

bye
    michael

[Uwe Bonnes]

> > > > > "Mike" == Mike Hearn  writes:

>> Hallo,
    >> 
    >> it boiled down that Andi added a lot of functions in the user32 spec
    >> file, with no implementation provided. These functions are mostly
    >> only implemented in recent windows version, and Notes has to cope
    >> with these functions not available. But as we added them in the spec
    >> file, this request will be granted, but later fails when this
    >> function should be executed.
    >> 
    >> I notified Andi, but got no feedback so long.

Mike> Perhaps a patch should be sent that comments out these functions
    Mike> in the spec file until there are implementations of them?

It seems like Alexandre already cared...

Bye

[Andreas Mohr]

Hi,

On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 01:28:55PM +0200, Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> > > > > > "Mike" == Mike Hearn  writes:
> >> Hallo,
> >> 
> >> it boiled down that Andi added a lot of functions in the user32 spec
> >> file, with no implementation provided. These functions are mostly
> >> only implemented in recent windows version, and Notes has to cope
> >> with these functions not available. But as we added them in the spec
> >> file, this request will be granted, but later fails when this
> >> function should be executed.
> >> 
> >> I notified Andi, but got no feedback so long.
>
> Mike> Perhaps a patch should be sent that comments out these functions
> Mike> in the spec file until there are implementations of them?
>
> It seems like Alexandre already cared...

Fortunately :)

I'm afraid that I didn't reply because it was a bit difficult:
my WD subscription had bounced once again, so I didn't receive the relevant
traffic, so I couldn't read it properly.

So I finally had enough and made the mailing list bouncing settings yet
more relaxed.
(I mean come on, I've had my subscription bounce about 6 or 7 times already,
so I was REALLY fed up enough to be ripe for a change...)