[MPlayer-users] Openal not found

[atomix]

I managed to compile mplayer, however there is a problem. When I start it  
 from console, it searches for openal.so from launched directory. This is  
wrong, mplayer fails to start:
  mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: ./openal.so: cannot open  
shared object file: No such file or directory

How can I configure mplayer to point always at: /usr/lib/openal.so?
Using latest svn version.