hi i just downloaded blender source and i tried to install it but it gives me the following error message when i run make:SND_OpenALDevice::SetObjectTransform(int, const MT_Vector3&, const
MT_Vector3&, const MT_Matrix3x3&, const MT_Vector3&, const MT_Scalar&) const
':
SND_OpenALDevice.cpp:691: error: `alSourcefv' undeclared (first use this
function)
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:61: Error: symbol `freq' is already defined
{standard input}:67: Error: symbol `data' is already defined
{standard input}:79: Error: symbol `loop' is already defined
make[3]: *** [/home/paul/temp/blender-2.33/obj/linux-glibc2.3.2-i386/intern/OpenALSoundSystem/SND_OpenALDevice.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 1
any suggest???

No idea if there's some way to fix that; my suggestion would be to just download blender binaries, rather than source (unless you're on some really obscure platform that they don't provide binaries for). Being recently open-sourced, I can see that there may still be compilation problems; when they first opened the source, they basically said "don't even bother trying to compile this, since it probably won't work." It's improved a lot since then, but it's probably much easier to just get binaries (that's what I do, and I even use Gentoo )