--- configure.in
+++ configure.in
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@
 AC_CHECK_LIB(Xrender, XRenderSetSubpixelOrder,,AC_MSG_ERROR([Can't find libXrandr. Please check config.log and if you can't solve the problem send the file to torcs-users@lists.sourceforge.net with the subject \"torcs compilation problem\"]))
 AC_CHECK_LIB(Xrandr, XRRQueryVersion,,AC_MSG_ERROR([Can't find libXrandr. Please check config.log and if you can't solve the problem send the file to torcs-users@lists.sourceforge.net with the subject \"torcs compilation problem\"]))
 AC_CHECK_LIB(openal, alEnable,, AC_MSG_ERROR([Can't find AL/al.h. OpenAL can be found on http://www.openal.org/]))
+AC_CHECK_LIB(alut, alutInit,, AC_MSG_ERROR([Can't find AL/al.h. OpenAL can be found on http://www.openal.org/]))
 
 AC_CHECK_LIB(dl, dlopen)
 AC_CHECK_FUNC(dlopen,,AC_MSG_ERROR([Can't find dlopen function. Please check config.log and if you can't solve the problem send the file to torcs-users@lists.sourceforge.net with the subject \"torcs compilation problem\"]))