[Alsa-user] configure: error: Sufficiently new version of libasound not found .

[Sarris, C. <Chr...@cs...>]

I am almost finished compiling the alsa-util-0.9beta12 portion of the alsa
sound drivers
and I get this error:
Please help!

configure: error: Sufficiently new version of libasound not found.

I am installing the alsa-0.9beta12 drivers on a straight Red Hat 7.2 install
on Dell hardware
(Dell Precision 210) with a 2.4.9-13 kernal w/ the hearders loaded
(kernel-headers-2.4.9-13 - rpmed)

I cannot get past this error - I have tried the --prefix option for the
./configure but 
it says the asoundlib is not new enough.

Anyone?
thanks,
Chris