*** The openal-config script installed by OpenAL could not be found
*** Make sure openal-config is in your path, or set the OPENAL_CONFIG
*** environment variable to the full path to openal-config.
checking for OpenAL compilation... no
configure: error: *** Can't find the openal library. Try: http://www.openal.org/

jon@gimli:~/scorched$ apt-get install libopenal0 libopenal-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
libopenal0 is already the newest version.
libopenal-dev is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
jon@gimli:~/scorched$