I then spend several days pulling various releases, just trying to compile them.
They all fail miserably, because some fix required to compile
correctly with newer Linux versions is /missing/.
For example,
- any Wine before 2004-01-02 won't work because it won't compile
against newer ALSA versions.
- any Wine before 2003-12-01 needs patches to the build system before
'make depend' will even run.
To do a valid regression test, you really want to run it on a system
that worked in 2003, so you probably should be compiling it and running
it on Slackware 9.0 or rather than Slackware 10.1, or whatever system
you were using back then.
For example, if you tried to use Wine from a couple of years ago on the
latest Fedora Core, even if you get it to compile, it won't run, because
of problems with exec-shield and who knows what else.
Mike
