Mesa3D install can't find libdrm

Question

I'm currently trying to manually install Mesa (version 10.2.3) on a server for which I do not have root access. After downloading the source, I run the configure file with .\configure --prefix=$HOME/.../PATH/TO/MESA. I get the following readout:

checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for ar... ar
checking the archiver (ar) interface... ar
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... (cached) yes
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
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checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes
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checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
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checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes
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checking for joinable pthread attribute... PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE
checking if more special flags are required for pthreads... no
checking for PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT... no
checking for LIBDRM... no
checking for LIBUDEV... no
checking for GLPROTO... yes
configure: error: Direct rendering requires libdrm >= 2.4.38

However, when I use locate libdrm, I get the following:

/install/rocks-dist/x86_64/RedHat/RPMS/libdrm-2.4.45-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
/usr/lib64/libdrm.so.2
/usr/lib64/libdrm.so.2.4.0
/usr/lib64/libdrm_intel.so.1
/usr/lib64/libdrm_intel.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib64/libdrm_nouveau.so.1
/usr/lib64/libdrm_nouveau.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib64/libdrm_nouveau2.so.2
/usr/lib64/libdrm_nouveau2.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib64/libdrm_radeon.so.1
/usr/lib64/libdrm_radeon.so.1.0.1
/usr/share/doc/libdrm-2.4.45
/usr/share/doc/libdrm-2.4.45/README
/var/lib/yum/yumdb/l/093e922ee5fe0bcee6c2de28500239d06027be18-libdrm-2.4.45-2.el6-x86_64
/var/lib/yum/yumdb/l/093e922ee5fe0bcee6c2de28500239d06027be18-libdrm-2.4.45-2.el6-x86_64/checksum_data
/var/lib/yum/yumdb/l/093e922ee5fe0bcee6c2de28500239d06027be18-libdrm-2.4.45-2.el6-x86_64/checksum_type
/var/lib/yum/yumdb/l/093e922ee5fe0bcee6c2de28500239d06027be18-libdrm-2.4.45-2.el6-x86_64/from_repo
/var/lib/yum/yumdb/l/093e922ee5fe0bcee6c2de28500239d06027be18-libdrm-2.4.45-2.el6-x86_64/from_repo_revision
/var/lib/yum/yumdb/l/093e922ee5fe0bcee6c2de28500239d06027be18-libdrm-2.4.45-2.el6-x86_64/from_repo_timestamp
/var/lib/yum/yumdb/l/093e922ee5fe0bcee6c2de28500239d06027be18-libdrm-2.4.45-2.el6-x86_64/installed_by
/var/lib/yum/yumdb/l/093e922ee5fe0bcee6c2de28500239d06027be18-libdrm-2.4.45-2.el6-x86_64/reason
/var/lib/yum/yumdb/l/093e922ee5fe0bcee6c2de28500239d06027be18-libdrm-2.4.45-2.el6-x86_64/releasever

This seems to indicate to me that libdrm version 2.4.45 is already installed on the system, so why am I still getting an error? I tried running the configure file again with the default prefix and the same error occurs.

UPDATE: The problem is moot for me now as the server admin added OpenGL to the system. Feel free to write an answer, though, as it might help someone having similar issues.

Answer 1

Installing the libdrm-dev package solved this problem for me.

Answer 2

just set the following variables:

export LIBDRM_CFLAGS="-I${LIBDRM_ROOT} -I${LIBDRM_ROOT}/libdrm"
export LIBDRM_LIBS="-L${LIBDRM_ROOT}/lib -ldrm"

as LIBDRM_ROOT have the path for the installed LIBDRM package.