Problems compiling older wine-versions

[Louis. Lenders]

Hi, i just upgraded to fedora core 5 (from fedora 3)
In my old system i had about 20 wine-versions (back to april 2004) installed which was great for tracking down regressions. 
Trying to compile older wineversions now on my new installation fails with various errors (like wine-20050419 fails with error:
 ‘union <anonymous>’ has no member named ‘a_ptr)’
Even wine-0.9 (first beta release) won't compile anymore.

I guess that's due to newer gcc/glibc versions. Is there a (easy) way to get older wine-versions compiling  again?

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[Neil Skrypuch]

On Monday, May 22, 2006 04:27, Louis. Lenders wrote:
> Hi, i just upgraded to fedora core 5 (from fedora 3)
> In my old system i had about 20 wine-versions (back to april 2004)
> installed which was great for tracking down regressions. Trying to compile
> older wineversions now on my new installation fails with various errors
> (like wine-20050419 fails with error: ‘union <anonymous>’ has no member
> named ‘a_ptr)’
> Even wine-0.9 (first beta release) won't compile anymore.
>
> I guess that's due to newer gcc/glibc versions. Is there a (easy) way to
> get older wine-versions compiling  again?
>
> Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

There was an issue with flex a few months ago, where Wine wouldn't compile 
with the newer version of flex. Wine was modified so that it would compile 
again, but older versions wouldn't compile anymore with the newer version of 
flex. Try using flex-2.5.4a to compile the older versions of Wine.

(At least I'm pretty sure it was flex, it might have been bison though, try 
bison-1.875d if you have no luck with older flex.)

- Neil

[Peter Beutner]

Louis. Lenders schrieb:
> Hi, i just upgraded to fedora core 5 (from fedora 3)
> In my old system i had about 20 wine-versions (back to april 2004) installed which was great for tracking down regressions. 
> Trying to compile older wineversions now on my new installation fails with various errors (like wine-20050419 fails with error:
>  union <anonymous> has no member named a_ptr)
> Even wine-0.9 (first beta release) won't compile anymore.
>
> I guess that's due to newer gcc/glibc versions. Is there a (easy) way to get older wine-versions compiling  again?

identify and porting the necessary changes back is probably the easiest way, atleast easier than installing another glibc ;)

Assuming you are using git:

# create a new branch 'v0.9' starting at version 0.9
git checkout -b v0.9 wine-0.9

# fix for the flex issue(needed for wine < 0.9.10)
git cherry-pick -r 69dcbaaf93a65820a28fe2485b6d15a90f423899

# fix for undefined CLK_TCK (needed for wine < 0.9.1)
git cherry-pick -r 5c256c518faf2344266cabecad9fdbfd9d0095ad

Thats all you need atleast back until 0.9. I never tried anything older.

As for the error you mentioned:
$ git log wine-20050419..upstream | grep -B4 a_ptr
commit 2b6e7dad58833b0e4bf3a05c8ae2de3542728c2e
Author: Marcus Meissner 
Date:   Thu Jun 2 10:30:08 2005 +0000

Elf32_auxv_t.a_un.a_ptr no longer exists in HEAD glibc CVS, use

so I guess you want that commit too for wine-20050419.