[MuSE] Problem installing MuSe

Greetings. I hope there's someone out there who can help me figure out
what I am doing wrong... I can't get MuSe to compile! I figure I am
probably doing something silly and I just can't see it- but I'm stumped;
I'm getting hung up on a problem with Ogg Vorbis and I can't figure out
how to get past it.

The machine is: x86_64, Mandriva 2006. When I run ./configure it ends up
with:

checking for Ogg... no
*** Could not run Ogg test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means Ogg was incorrectly installed
*** or that you have moved Ogg since it was installed. In the latter case, you
*** may want to edit the ogg-config script:
configure: WARNING: Ogg not found!

And it does this whether or not Ogg etc. is installed. I've tried it
multiple times with libogg and libvorbis etc. either installed or not
installed and no matter what, it always dies with the above message. (I
thought it would just not try to build in Ogg capabilities if those libs
weren't on the system...?)

It seems to configure just fine if I use --disable-oggtest and
--disable-vorbistest- but that doesn't get me anywhere, because it still
seems to always want to rely on the Ogg Vorbis libs, whether or not they
are installed. Or so I infer from its output when I tell it not to test
for ogg vorbis:

== MuSE build configuration =====================================
:: Building on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (kernel Linux2612)
:: Linking OggVorbis libraries for OGG encoding
:: Linking Lame libraries for MP3 encoding
:: DEBUG informations OFF
:: PROFILING informations OFF (see man gprof)
:: Compiler flags = -pipe -D_REENTRANT -O2 -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math
============================== now type make, may the source be with you!


And when I run make it barely gets anywhere before complaining that it
can't find ogg.h, and then it spews a bunch of errors relating to
vorbis.c and then dies.

I think at this point what I want is to force it to not try to use
libogg and libvorbis, and I can't figure out how. It seems to be
insisting on trying to use them, and it fails every time. Sure, I'd be
happy if it would just find the ogg vorbis libs and then build
successfully- but really I don't need to use ogg at all so if I can get
it to just stop trying that might do the trick.

I hope there's someone out there who can offer some insight into what I
am doing wrong, and I'd be grateful for any suggestions.

Thanks!