On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:27 AM, James Huk <huk256@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2009/4/18 vitamin <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> >> James Huk wrote: >> > Can I somehow- using git - fetch all patches from date x, for custom dll? >> >> That's exactly what git does. You literally cloning the entire repository >> all patches since day 1. >> >> >> James Huk wrote: >> > I mean can I get all patches from wine-0.9.15 onward for dsound.dll? If >> so, will I be able to apply them for wine-0.9.15 source? >> >> No. There were lots of wholesale changes in Wine source tree. You can't >> backport big changes to each individual dll, especially if it relies on lots >> of other things. >> >> >> >> >> >> > I see. I tried again with: > > git bisect start > git bisect good wine-0.9.15 > git bisect bad > > and... well: > > 1st compilation successful - bug present > 2nd compilation successful - bug present > 3th compilation successful - well now even winecfg doesn't want to start – > some kind of “can't create window” error (sorry I didn't write it down). Now > I tried again with git bisect bad and recompilation – but wine was never > able to create window. Few compilations later it failed to compile at all. > > My questions are: > > 1.Is there a way to compile and test wine using above git bisect? http://wiki.winehq.org/ReverseRegressionTesting > 2.If I found regression between 0.9.15 and 0.9.16 – should I report it at > all? This is after all very old wine version... Yes. The bug can't be fixed if it isn't known. -- -Austin
