[ut2004] OpenAL questions

[Jason Paque]

--- rix <zajelo3 at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> Xipher wrote:
> 
> > What they are saying, is put the new
> libopenal.so.0.0.7 in the place 
> > of the one that ut2004 uses 
> > "/usr/local/games/ut2004demo/System/openal.so" by
> default. I would 
> > recommend though backing up the old one first,
> possibly by moving it 
> > to openal.so.backup and then copying the new one
> to the dir, with 
> > openal.so as its name.
> >
> > rix wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> >>
> >
> Thanks. I took care of that, now I was wondering if
> anybody could ansmer 
> my question about the *~/.openalrc* file. Do you
> create the file with 
> the appropriate settings and not worry about where
> it goes? What 
> function does the tilde serve?
>                 TIA
>                    Rick Belins
> 
First the "~" represents your users home directory and
yes the file .openalrc must be created there