https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40784
--- Comment #9 from Andrew Eikum aeikum@codeweavers.com --- (In reply to Janek from comment #8)
I installed openal-soft 1.14 on my system in /usr/local so that it doesn't conflict with 1.12 version installed from packages. How do I tell wine where to look for the locally installed library and its development files?
Did it install a pkg-config pc file someplace? You could point to that instead with PKG_CONFIG_PATH before running configure.