Thanks a lot, that got me further.

It looks like something is up with the fonts in the older tarballs...

make[1]: Entering directory '~/wine-1.9.20/fonts'

../tools/sfnt2fon/sfnt2fon -o coue1255.fon courier.ttf -d 128 13,1255,8

Error: Cannot open face courier.ttf

make[1]: *** [Makefile:174: coue1255.fon] Error 1

make[1]: Leaving directory '~/wine-1.9.20/fonts'

make: *** [Makefile:19441: fonts] Error 2

You could probably just disable pcap while building (i.e. configure
--without-pcap).