Gerald Pfeifer pfeifer@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.