Global Wine configuration file not consulted?

[Alexandre Julliard]

Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> 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

The global configuration is no longer supported at this point, mainly
because it doesn't play well with WINEPREFIX. I'm planning to
implement a more general solution at some point that will again enable
global config files. At the moment if you want that behavior you have
to create a symlink from ~/.wine/config to some global config.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.com