OpenAL questions

[rix]

Hi all,
    I'm kind of confused about about the instructions on this page 
"http://icculus.org/~warp/ut2004/ ". I got the source tree from CVS 
applied the patch and did:

     (1) ./autogen.sh
     (2) ./configure --enable-alsa --enable-capture --enable-optimize
     (3) make
     (4) make install

The part I'm confused  about is this comment:"This will give 
src/libopenal.so.0.0.7 .Shove it in 
/usr/local/games/ut2004demo/System/openal.so"
Does this mean I'm supposed to delete openal.so and use 
libopenal.so.0.0.7 instead?
    Also, with the ~/.openalrc file, do I just create the file and leave 
it in my home directory? The tilde at the beginning has me confused as I 
don't know what it does or represents.

          TIA
          Rick Belins