[Openal] No sound in armyops with latest cvs

[Ryan C. Gordon]

> Hi. I have updated my openal to latest cvs (portable module). In order
> to compile it, I had to pass --enable-arts and --enable-sdl to the
> configure script. The problem is that now I can't get any sound with
> America's Army. I have tried to pass --enable-debug-maximus to
> configure, but it does not output anything. America's Army has worked
> with openal cvs from before the build changes (that it was not necessary
> to enable all backends to make it compile). Any ideas what is wrong? I
> have symlinked /usr/local/lib/libopenal.0.0.0 to
> /usr/local/games/armyops/System/openal.so just as before.

If OpenAL is using the SDL backend, then it's probably using the SDL 
that ships with ArmyOps, which (I could be mistaken) has the audio 
subsystem stripped out.

This is just a guess as to the problem, though.

--ryan.