Paolo Bonzini <bonz...@gnu.org> writes:

> On 01/09/2010 12:33 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
>> Hmm, you and Paolo explained to me on 2009-08-21 that Wine should be
>> considered as a platform of its own. But I still don't fully agree. Can
>> you first report the bug to the Wine people and come back to patching
>> gnulib only if they are not fixing it within two months?
>
> I agree with this.  Alternatively we could just make sure that code
> paths in configure that differ for Wine and Windows do all tests using
> cache variables, so that these can be tweaked with config.site when
> people use Wine.

Yes, that would help (but a bit time consuming).

> If we don't do that, we should anyway use no mercy for old versions
> and un-patch it as soon as it is fixed in Wine.

That's fine with me.  The bug is present in the latest stable Wine
release though.

/Simon


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