On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 06:41:18PM -0600, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> 
> > > Here are the patches I'm using to build wine on 1.5.3_ALPHA, generated
> > > against the Wine-20020122 tag. You'll need a fairly current 1.5.3_ALPHA
> > > which has the crt* fixes. Even then, there's no support in wine for any
> > > portable threading systems, so you can only run command line apps (but
> > > no dos apps), and simple apps that don't try to spawn a shell. I've
> > > successfully run "Mirror.exe", "Rar.exe", "SmartPAR.exe", "UnRAR.exe",
> > > "ydec.exe", as well as wine's own "winemine".
> >
> > Wine requires clone(2) to run apps,
> 
> [That's obviously not true, but perhaps you meant to say "wine
> requires clone() to run *most* apps".]

[In fact, I'm little interested in making command line Win32 apps
run on NetBSD via Wine.]

> > but I haven't submitted it to
> > the releng since I don't have a machine that is running 1.5.x.
> > Without someone else's help, this is unlikely to be done before
> > 1.5.3 is tagged off.
> 
> You're talking about adding a syscall to netbsd-1-5?

Yes.

> Wouldn't that require a minor bump to libc,

Yes, it will.

> and wouldn't that then break every
> shared library already built for netbsd-1-5 on ELF platforms?

AFAIK, bumping minor version doesn't break anything. Only major
bump does.

Jun-Young

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Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@mogua.com>