[pkg-wine-party] Call for testing: automatically detect wine arch and WoW64

Jens Reyer jre.winesim at gmail.com
Fri Jan 1 16:29:06 UTC 2016


On 12/31/2015 11:46 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Jens Reyer wrote:
>> tl;dr:
>> WoW64 seems to work if wineserver (from the native arch) is in /usr/bin
>> and the 32-bit wineserver is deleted.
>> No need for other build process --with-wine64=...
> 
> I'm pleasantly surprised that it turns out to be so simple.

Believe me, me too. I hope this turns out to really work in practice,
for now I made only limited tests.

>> Should we drop the /usr/bin/wine script and link wine, wine64 and
>> wineserver to /usr/bin/?
> 
> Yes, please go ahead and commit that and your other suggested changes.
> 
> I'll figure out wine/wine-development coinstallability.

Will do asap.


>> - How to handle wine64 only installations?
> 
> This should be handled without dummy packages.

ack, will think about it. Proposals welcome.

Greets
jre



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