hi,i'm really sorry for posting another stupid compilation problem...i started compiling plib and installed it - no problemthen i wanted to compile simgear but configure said: first install openal...i downloaded it using the cvs-command and installed it. - no problemback to simgear running make, and i think here there were the first error - he didn't find some "alut" - headers.i found alut in the openal-directory and installed it...after rerunning configure and make for simgear the linker told me that he can't resolve something that sounded like "alut"?!?!but after editing the corresponding make-file (added -lalut) i could install it.it was the same problem with flightgear und the same solution, too.so now i was happy and wanted to run fgfs and he said that he can't find libalut.so.0 - but it is in /usr/local/lib!i found the same problem in an earlier post, but with no solution given...every package is the most-recent available and i always ran configure or autogen.sh with no additional parameters, except openal: ./configure --with-alsa --with-artsd (or something like that)i use suse 9.3 (that's why i need to compile it myself - argh!!)thank you for your help ;)

well, after restarting my computer everything works...?!can anyone explain what happened?bye, weigi.

Did you run ldconfig after installing the alut library? That's probably the problem.

i didn't.this may also be the reason, why it worked after installing openal with yast.thanks you!!