Global Wine configuration file not consulted?

Andriy Palamarchuk apa3a at yahoo.com
Tue May 14 10:40:30 CDT 2002


Gerard,
  thank you for the information. To improve bug
handling and insure no bug report will be lost we
defined new place to report Wine issues - the Wine bug
tracking system.

Could you file your report at
http://bugs.winehq.com?

Regards,
Andriy Palamarchuk

--- Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> I noticed that in the absence of ~/.wine/config Wine
> simply refuses to
> start, and truss (on FreeBSD) and trace (on
> GNU/Linux) reveal that no
> other location is consulted for a config file.
> 
> Even explictly Using ETCDIR or `configure
> --sysconfdir` doesn't seem to
> make a difference, even though the documentation
> indicates otherwise:
> 
>  
>
http://www.winehq.com/Docs/wine-pkg/pkg-nonstatic.shtml#WINERC
> 
>     ETCDIR/wine.conf
> 
>     This is the global Wine configuration file. It
> is only used if
>     the user running Wine has no local configuration
> file.
> 
> % ls -la $ETCDIR/wine.conf
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  7616 Mar 11 13:59
> /usr/local/etc/wine.conf
> % ls -la /home/pfeifer/.wine/config
> ls: /home/pfeifer/.wine/config: No such file or
> directory
> % wine
> Can't open configuration file
> /home/pfeifer/.wine/config
> 
> Gerald
> -- 
> Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer at dbai.tuwien.ac.at
> http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/
> 
> 


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