Install Mesa3D on Debian - LIBDRM not found by configure autoconf

Question

I am trying to compile and install mesa3D from source. (ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/11.0.0/mesa-11.0.0-rc3.tar.gz)

I am at the configure step

./configure \
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -g -DDEFAULT_SOFTWARE_DEPTH_BITS=31" \
CFLAGS="-O2 -g -DDEFAULT_SOFTWARE_DEPTH_BITS=31" \
--disable-xvmc \
--disable-glx \
--disable-dri \
--with-dri-drivers="" \
--with-gallium-drivers="swrast" \
--enable-texture-float \
--disable-shared-glapi \
--disable-egl \
--with-egl-platforms="" \
--enable-gallium-osmesa \
--enable-gallium-llvm=yes \
--with-llvm-shared-libs \
--prefix=/opt/mesa/11.0.0/llvmpip

I keep getting the error about configure not finding the LIBDRM library

checking for LIBDRM... no
configure: error: shared GLAPI required when building two or more of
                      the following APIs - opengl, gles1 gles2

Even though the library is known to ldconfig

ldconfig -p | grep drm
libdrm_radeon.so.1 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdrm_radeon.so.1
libdrm_radeon.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdrm_radeon.so
libdrm_nouveau.so.1 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdrm_nouveau.so.1
libdrm_nouveau.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdrm_nouveau.so
libdrm_intel.so.1 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdrm_intel.so.1
libdrm_intel.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdrm_intel.so
libdrm.so.2 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdrm.so.2
libdrm.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdrm.so

I tried to use the LDFLAGS env variable but without success

LDFLAGS='-L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/' ./configure <my configure parameters here>

or

export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/" && ./configure <my configure parameters here> 

Here is the part in the configure script (that I assume is) generating this error

# Check for libdrm

pkg_failed=no
{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for LIBDRM" >&5
$as_echo_n "checking for LIBDRM... " >&6; }

if test -n "$LIBDRM_CFLAGS"; then
    pkg_cv_LIBDRM_CFLAGS="$LIBDRM_CFLAGS"
 elif test -n "$PKG_CONFIG"; then
    if test -n "$PKG_CONFIG" && \
    { { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: \$PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors \"libdrm >= \$LIBDRM_REQUIRED\""; } >&5
  ($PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "libdrm >= $LIBDRM_REQUIRED") 2>&5
  ac_status=$?
  $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
  test $ac_status = 0; }; then
  pkg_cv_LIBDRM_CFLAGS=`$PKG_CONFIG --cflags "libdrm >= $LIBDRM_REQUIRED" 2>/dev/null`
                      test "x$?" != "x0" && pkg_failed=yes
else
  pkg_failed=yes
fi
 else
    pkg_failed=untried
fi

Could you provide some propositions or hints to solve this problem?

Thanks

Answer 1

Libraries seen by ldconfig are used for runtime linking; compiling requires an extra symlink (and header files in most cases). In this instance you need to install libdrm-dev, and probably other -dev packages too.

You may find How to build mesa useful; it explains in detail how to build Mesa from source in Debian.

Answer 2

The run-time libraries are installed, but per your comment response, the development packages are not - that's what the ./configure error is complaining about. I'm not sure of the exact package name, you'll probably have to do an apt-cache search for it, but if you install the -dev package for libDRM, that should resolve this issue. You may run into another -dev package not installed error, just keep installing the required -dev packages until the ./configure run completes.

Answer 3

Here is how I manged to install Mesa3D from source on Debian.Thanks to all people's answers and comments.

First, I had to install libdrm-dev package.

# apt-get install libdrm-dev

Then, check where the header and lib files were installed

# dpkg-query -L libdrm-dev
...
/usr/include/libdrm/drm.h
...
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdrm.a
...

After that, export two env variables needed by configure to link to libdrm (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24644211/mesa3d-install-cant-find-libdrm)

# export LIBDRM_CFLAGS="-I/usr/include/libdrm/"
# export LIBDRM_LIBS="-L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/"

Finaly,configure, make and make install

# ./configure <parameters here>
# make -j24 # running on a 24 cores machine
# make -j24 install

Otherwise, the second error I was getting,

configure: error: shared GLAPI required when building two or more of
                  the following APIs - opengl, gles1 gles2

was not linked to libdrm. It was because of libgalpi that shouldn't be disabled when running configure!