On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 5:05 AM, David Gerard <dgerard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2008/6/4 David Gerard <dgerard@xxxxxxxxx>: >> 2008/6/4 Usurp <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx>: > >>> [Shocked] do you plan to to build wine on cygwin ?? > >> Yes - I don't expect it to work, I was just curious as to how far it >> would get :-) > > > I must say, I found this warning quite amusing: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/wine-devel@xxxxxxxxxx/msg04375.html > > "I got cygwin to compile wine to the point where wine-install tried to > run regedit on > winedefault.reg. > I should have been paying closer attention. > The good news is that the wine regedit.exe works like a charm. The > bad news is that > it overwrote my actual windows registry with the bunk values in winedefault.reg. > Not gonna be very easy to roll back. > So... WATCH OUT! That last step's a doozy." > The good thing about this warning is you can make a system restore point before this and possibly back yourself out of any registry mess. John
