https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29661
--- Comment #6 from Adam Bolte abolte@systemsaviour.com --- I just hit this, and spent 10 minutes scratching my head. Completely agree with Ken Sharp on the error message.
For years, I have been creating new prefixes with something like:
abolte@host:/a/very/long/path/i/dont/want/to/type$ mkdir steam && cd steam abolte@host:/a/very/long/path/i/dont/want/to/type$ WINEPREFIX="$(pwd)" wine SteamSetup.exe
A few months ago I started using 64-bit prefixes for everything due to certain application requirements, and today I discovered I needed a new 32-bit prefix for winetricks to install a different app, and hit this. For a few minutes there I thought I must not have compiled or installed Wine correctly. Seems like a trivial change to improve usability of the software.