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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=513819

--- Comment #6 from Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com 2009-07-26 15:03:22 EDT --- There are three problems:

1) when given --host, Autoconf tries to run a program to determine if you're cross compiling. If you have Wine installed the Windows executable are registered with the kernel binfmt_misc module and then you're not cross-compiling, or at least Autoconf doesn't think you are.

So glib will run the runtime tests that detect mismatches between the versions in the include files and the actual library versions. While I agree that necessary runtime tests are evil, they can be useful when they are supported because they are more precise that compile-only tests. Indeed in my case it detected that I was using the wrong pkg-config (bug 513825).

That's why it is ok to report this as a wine bug, also. The bug doesn't happen if Wine is not installed.

2) The reason GNU Smalltalk's build needs Wine is not needing runtime tests, but rather that it needs to run itself to complete the build. This is not related to this bug.

Wine's behaviour when executing programs which depend on other (cross- compiled) libraries is the same as would happen on real Windows environments. That is: only the default paths and the current path are searched for libraries.

I know, but this bug applies to uninstalled binaries. It is currently impossible to run a quick-and-dirty glib/gtk program in Wine except by manually adding c:\mingw\bin to the path. (BTW, I stand corrected; adding c:\mingw\lib is not required).