1) I cannot build on Linux as it says
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lasound
but clearly is exists as it used to build up to this morning and 
$ locate libasound
/usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/libasound.so.2
/usr/lib/libasound.so
/usr/lib/libasound.la
Does it really need a -L/usr/lib as well?

2) Still trying to sort out fout, it has static values which need to
   be moved into the environmant structure.  However this stucture is
   needed by the close_files function which is run from atexit; how
   can an atexit function get access to the environment?

==John ffitch