Re: Sound problem with SUSE x86_64

[Richard Stallman]

    prefix, when I run make it fails to compile sound.c, because if can't find
    asoundlib.h.  If I hardcode the path to the file, all compiles fine and 
sound
    files play.

Please don't call a file name a "path".  In GNU we use the term "path"
only for lists of directories to search.

That file is in the same directory, /usr/include/alsa/, on my machine
too.  It finds the file because of

  CFLAGS_SOUND= -I/usr/include/alsa

in src/Makefile.  Is that line different in your src/Makefile?
If so, please debug why it is filled in differently.