Re: pkg/45610: wine 1.2.3 doesn't run on NetBSD 5.0.1 or 5.1 (was PKGSRC 2011Q2 Wine Troubles)

[Nat Sloss <nathanialsloss%yahoo.com.au@localhost>]

Hello,

After much mucking around with wine 1.2.3 and wine-devel I've fixed the 
problem of wine not running under NetBSD 5.0.1 or 5.1 I've amended the bug 
report I sent regarding the problem with the following:


> Hi,
>
> I have a fix for this bug.
>
> It seems the problem was that the main wine binary was linked against
> libpthread and contains no pthread code.  Using gdb I found that it was
> getting stuck at TESTCANCEL(self) in libpthread before calls to read and
> write.  The debug messages also reported of stack overruns for the wine and
> wineboot processes.
>
> So the solution was not to link the main wine binaries to libpthread.  Wine
> is still pthreaded as ntdll links against libpthread and I can confirm this
> through top showing 200% cpu usage for broken windows programs.
>
> So here is the patch:
>
> $NetBSD$
>
> --- loader/Makefile.in.orig     2011-04-08 17:09:51.000000000 +0000
> +++ loader/Makefile.in
> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ all: $(MAIN_BINARY) wine-installed $(EXT
>
>  @MAKE_RULES@
>
> -LIBPTHREAD  = @LIBPTHREAD@
> +LIBPTHREAD  =
>  LDEXECFLAGS = @LDEXECFLAGS@
>
>  wine-preloader: preloader.o Makefile.in
>
>
>
> This patch was also applied to wine-devel and it would also work
> (wine-devel has other problems under NetBSD 5.0.1 and I will submit
> additional bug reports and fixes for them.)
>
> With the patch applied winecfg starts in about 2 seconds and all features
> work.  I've tested it with firefox and built-in programs such as notepad
> and winmine and it works as expected.
>
> Regards,
>
> Nat.


Thank you to all that have posted.  I hope this helps others.

Regards,

Nat.