Thanks for the thoughtful post, much appreciated in this dilemma, and here is my new state of confusion
I found from Wine - openSUSE a list of dependencies and i INSTALLED THEM like this
zypper install gcc gcc+ make flex bison ncurses-devel-32bit giflib-devel-32bit liblcms-devel-32bit libxslt-devel-32bit Mesa-devel-32bit libpng-devel-32bit libxml2-devel-32bit freeglut-devel-32bit zlib-devel-32bit glibc-devel-32bit fontconfig-devel-32bit xorg-x11-devel-32bit xorg-x11-libXext-32bit xorg-x11-libXp-32bit xorg-x11-libXt-32bit capi4linux-32bit xorg-x11-libICE-32bit xorg-x11-libXext-devel-32bit sane-32bit cups-libs-32bit libjpeg-devel-32bit unixODBC-devel-32bit freetype2-devel-32bit openssl-devel-32bit openldap2-devel-32bit freetype2-devel-32bit hal-32bit hal-devel audiofile-devel
cool so easy with the command line 
and Configured with
./configure --prefix=<where to install wine> --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib --x-includes=/usr/include/X11/ --with-x
and it compiled with some errors, here are the errors …
configure: libxcursor 32-bit development files not found, the Xcursor extension won’t be supported.
configure: libxi 32-bit development files not found, the Xinput extension won’t be supported.
configure: XShm 32-bit development files not found, X Shared Memory won’t be supported.
configure: XShape 32-bit development files not found, XShape won’t be supported.
configure: libXxf86vm 32-bit development files not found, XFree86 Vidmode won’t be supported.
configure: libxrandr 32-bit development files not found, XRandr won’t be supported.
configure: libxinerama 32-bit development files not found, multi-monitor setups won’t be supported.
configure: libxcomposite 32-bit development files not found, Xcomposite won’t be supported.
configure: libGLU 32-bit development files not found, GLU won’t be supported.
configure: libhal/libdbus 32-bit development files not found, no dynamic device support.
configure: libgnutls 32-bit development files not found, no schannel support.
configure: libsane 32-bit development files not found, scanners won’t be supported.
configure: libgphoto2 32-bit development files not found, digital cameras won’t be supported.
configure: libcapi20 32-bit development files not found, ISDN won’t be supported.
configure: libcups 32-bit development files not found, CUPS won’t be supported.
configure: libgsm 32-bit development files not found, gsm 06.10 codec won’t be supported.
configure: libmpg123 32-bit development files not found (or too old), mp3 codec won’t be supported.
configure: libopenal 32-bit development files not found (or too old), OpenAL won’t be supported.
configure: WARNING: libxrender 32-bit development files not found, XRender won’t be supported.
configure: WARNING: No OpenGL library found on this system.
OpenGL and Direct3D won’t be supported.
configure: WARNING: OpenSSL 32-bit development files not found, SSL won’t be supported.
configure: Finished. Do ‘make depend && make’ to compile Wine.
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- so i tried a “make && make install”, and it finished after a minute or so (too fast i think) and ended with these errors …
make[2]: Nothing to be done for all'. make[2]: Leaving directory
/home/ack/System/Ubuntu_Apps/Wine/wine-1.1.33/dlls/capi2032’
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ack/System/Ubuntu_Apps/Wine/wine-1.1.33/dlls/cards’
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="…/…/libs/wine:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" …/…/tools/wrc/wrc --nostdinc -I. -I. -I…/…/include -I…/…/include -D__WINESRC__ -focards.res cards.rc
cards.rc:156: Oops, segment violation
make[2]: *** [cards.res] Aborted
make[2]: Leaving directory /home/ack/System/Ubuntu_Apps/Wine/wine-1.1.33/dlls/cards' make[1]: *** [cards] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory
/home/ack/System/Ubuntu_Apps/Wine/wine-1.1.33/dlls’
make: *** [dlls] Error 2
ANY SUGGESTIONS, thanks