http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10996
--- Comment #13 from Lawrence E Toal let02do@earthlink.net 2008-03-10 09:38:08 --- (In reply to comment #12)
(In reply to comment #11)
I've built wine-0.9.57 and did a fresh install (i.e., backed up and deleted the ~/.wine directory so that it would have to be built again). I'll just note that when wine-0.9.50 has a "fresh" install, it does not need to run the "font metrics" that 0.9.51 -- 0.9.57 does upon first running.
That means that your build is missing freetype support.
I have freetype-2.1.9 installed, so I re-ran just the configure part of my build script and found I missed this:
WARNING: FreeType development files not found. Fonts will not be built. Dialog text may be invisible or unaligned.
Build scripts are super convenient--but this one seems to have bit me by not exiting on a warning ... I'll upgrade and report back.