[cmake-developers] Incomplete gfortran library link command sometimes mysteriously occurs with MinGW/MSYS on Wine-1.5.15 platform

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2012-10-26 02:15-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> On 2012-10-25 23:26-0600 Clinton Stimpson wrote:
>
>> Alan, you are in luck.  They fixed it two days ago!!  At first, I was 
>> confused because I was not able to reproduce it, then trying it against an 
>> older version of Wine showed the problem.
>> 
>> commit 4a566ed3d6acd8a6e18eeaeb41d55d0f793029de
>> Author: Piotr Caban <piotr at codeweavers.com>
>> Date:   Tue Oct 23 18:11:06 2012 +0200
>>
>>    msvcp90: Convert characters to unsigned char before passing them to 
>> functions operating on integers.
>> 
>
> That's awesome.

Furthermore, I just discovered that patch got into the just-released
Wine-1.5.16 so I will give that version a try for my comprehensive checks
rather than attempting to carry on with a patched version of 1.5.15.

Alan
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