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Wine & RedHat 9.0 Archive
Fixes
As discussed in detail in past issues, RedHat 9.0 has a problem with Wine. RedHat's using a new threading library that didn't quite get along with Wine. Alexandre has done a lot of work in this area over the past few weeks and on Tuesday committed some changes that prompted Dimi to ask:
I've noticed you've checked in already some NTPL patches. Does this mean that Wine is ready for RH9? Can I go ahead and upgrade my system?
Alexandre replied,
Yes, it's supposed to work. You have to use --with-nptl for now, I'm hoping to make it switchable at run time later; but apart from that it's mostly ready.
Dimi wanted to know if it could just be automatically detected when Wine is configured, but Alexandre didn't think so,
No, it really has to be determined at run time, there is no guarantee that the glibc that you are using at build time will be the same at run time. We could try to determine a default value for the --with-nptl flag, but it's not trivial, and we need to get rid of the flag anyway.
So take it all with a grain of salt - most of the heavy lifting seems done, but it might not work for you. Refer to issue #163 for the appropriate workaround. Or dig through the wine-devel archives . |
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