If this is your first time retrieving CVS, you will need to build the configure script and config.h.in dependency. Just run sh ./autogen.sh and you should be okay. Compilation / installation goes something like this: ./configure --enable-prefix=/usr/local make cd test [run tests] make install configure options: --enable-debug Enable debugging info. --enable-optimization Enables optimization. etc... Use --help to determine the rest. Most people will be fine with --enable-optimization. I don't recommend --enable-jlib. It's only useful to me. Really. Debugging options are now in the form: --enable-debug-blah in general, this will give you too much information to be useful on a particular topic. Use --enable-debug-maximus to get all debugging messages possible. If this is your first time installing openal, you'll probably need to run ldconfig. ATTENTION: The following changes have taken place that may alter the manner in which an installation works on your machine. Please be advised: - SDL is no longer required to build --- the conversion code has been copied into the audioconvert directory. If you experience any problems building or with the test code, please email me: tsaotsao@lokigames.com. Thanks. jv.