32- / 64- bit reporting different version numbers?

[KenSharp]

I cannot figure out why this might be happening but to make sure it wasn't my system, I wiped all relevant files and started again.

Compiled Wine64 on my Ubuntu Precise 64-bit (amd64) system:

$wine64 --version
wine-1.5.7-114-gd079b66

Compiled Wine32 on the same system but in a 32-bit (i386) chroot:

$wine --version
wine-1.5.7

They're built from the same tree and apart from the obvious exceptions, the same build options.

I'm happy to accept that it could be something wrong with my system but I don't know where to start. Anyone come across this before?

[DanKegel]

Do 'strings libs/wine/version.o' in both build directories.
It should show what each tree's --version will return.
(Or just look at libs/wine/version.c, which is generated by make.)

[KenSharp]

64-bit

const char wine_build[] = "wine-1.5.7-114-gd079b66";

32-bit

const char wine_build[] = "wine-1.5.7";

And just recompiled again from the same tree.

Madness!

[DanKegel]

Not madness - it's a fallback.

In your source tree, try
cd libs/wine
rm version.c
make version.c

You should see

version=`(GIT_DIR=/home/dank/wine-git/.git git describe HEAD 2>/dev/null || echo "wine-1.5.7") | sed -n -e '$s/\(.*\)/const char wine_build[] = "\1";/p'` && (echo $version | cmp -s - version.c) || echo $version >version.c || (rm -f version.c && exit 1)

Note how it tries using git, but falls back to a hardcoded string if git fails.

Now do that again in the chroot or whatever you're using to build 32 bits.

In that tree, the git operation is failing, maybe because you don't have git installed.

[KenSharp]

Yep, that's it! I never even thought that git wasn't installed. I assumed it came with build-essential but forgot to check.

There's always someone who knows the answer, thanks Dan!