Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add Wine.

[Ludovic Courtès]

宋文武 <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 宋文武 <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> I can't get tests working, so leave them disabled.
>>
>> It’s OK to do that so we can move forward, but please leave a comment
>> that explains the situation, above #:tests? #f.  The goal remains to
>> have tests running, eventually.
> By run it manually, it seem to me that many tests of wine are known to failed.

OK, well leave this as a comment.

>>> +    (arguments
>>> +     `(#:system "i686-linux"
>>
>> No, that’s not possible.  :-)
>> People should be able to use Wine regardless of their platform.
>>
>> What is the reason behind it?
> The goal is to have 32bit version wine for x86_64-linux.
> IMO, it's what most people want: to run 32bit windows applications.
>
> Yeah, for pure 64bit system `x86_64-linux', we can add wine64, which can run
> 64bit windows applications.

But can’t the 64-bit Wine run 32-bit Windows applications?  Is there any
loss of functionality by building it as x86_64 code?

> I have not try `mips64el-linux', but it sound mostly not working to me.

Yeah it probably doesn’t make much sense.

>> If some platforms are inherently not supported by Wine, then please add
>> a ‘supported-platforms’ field (there are examples in other files.)
> By set #:system to `i686-linux', I assunme it's same as:
>   `(supported-systems '("i686-linux" "x86_64-linux"))'

It’s not the same.  ‘supported-systems’ is required if we assume that
Wine only runs on Intel.  #:system is only needed if there’s a strong
reason to force i686 builds.

Thanks,
Ludo’.