Global Wine configuration file not consulted?

[Gerald Pfeifer]

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

ETCDIR/wine.conf

This is the global Wine configuration file. It is only used if
    the user running Wine has no local configuration file.

% ls -la $ETCDIR/wine.conf
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  7616 Mar 11 13:59 /usr/local/etc/wine.conf
% ls -la /home/pfeifer/.wine/config
ls: /home/pfeifer/.wine/config: No such file or directory
% wine
Can't open configuration file /home/pfeifer/.wine/config

Gerald

[Andriy Palamarchuk]

Gerard,
  thank you for the information. To improve bug
handling and insure no bug report will be lost we
defined new place to report Wine issues - the Wine bug
tracking system.

Could you file your report at
http://bugs.winehq.com?

Regards,
Andriy Palamarchuk

--- Gerald Pfeifer  wrote:
> 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
> ETCDIR/wine.conf
>
> This is the global Wine configuration file. It
>
> is only used if
>     the user running Wine has no local configuration
> file.
>
> % ls -la $ETCDIR/wine.conf
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  7616 Mar 11 13:59
> /usr/local/etc/wine.conf
> % ls -la /home/pfeifer/.wine/config
> ls: /home/pfeifer/.wine/config: No such file or
> directory
> % wine
> Can't open configuration file
> /home/pfeifer/.wine/config
> Gerald
>
> Gerald "Jerry" [e-mail]
> http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/

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[Alexandre Julliard]

Gerald Pfeifer  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.