Very basic question concerning compiling WINE

[Steven Rubenstein]

*** I hope this isn't appropriate, in that I posted this same question 
to wine-user at winehq.com.  I'm still not sure who reads what.  ***

I am an intermediate Linux user. I dual boot into Redhat 7.3 and Windows 
ME. It would be nice to be able to run the stuff in Windows from Linux 
(for 2 reasons: to avoid booting and rebooting, and trying to get away 
from Windows altogether someday), so I am now learning WINE.

I see a bunch of postings on this list about compiling. Question: Would 
I expect to compile, as opposed to just running the WINE configuration 
that came with Redhat 7.3? (Probably a pretty broad question, but if 
anyone has a word to say, I'm all ears.)

SJR