[Bug 12238] New: wine chooses wrong home directory

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12238

Summary: wine chooses wrong home directory
           Product: Wine
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: programs
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Wine failed to find c:\Windows

According to spec, it should have looked for
~hendrik/.wine/fake_windows/Windows.
I suspect it actually looked in /home/hendrik/.wine/fake_windows/Windows.

My home directory is /farhome/hendrik, not /home/hendrik.

After I inserted a symbolic link

ln -s /home/hendrik /farhome/hendrik

wine stopped complaining about not finding c:\Windows.

I suspect that Wine assumes home directories are in /home instead of looking in
the appropriate configuration file, such as /etc/passwd.  (There ought to be a
system call you can use to find this information instead of grotting around in
/etc/passwd.  Is there?)

-- hendrik