This a collection of notes that might be useful for someone else trying old (*) wine versions on recent (**) Linux distributions. 1) fix freetype.c according to this patch: http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/x11/wine/files/patch-freetype.c-pFT_MulFix.diff?rev=45839 2) fix signal_i386.c as indicated here: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1187915.html 3) fix openldap upgrade by applying a patch download patch from http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10320 into wine-git directory and in wine-git, do: patch -p1 < wldap32_build_fix.diff (*) The oldest I tried was 0.9.40 (**) I used Ubuntu 9.10