Re: [Mesa3d-users] Help: libdrm problem

[Sergio M. B. <se...@se...>]

On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 11:36 +0800, Lee Amy wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm going to compile the Mesa 7.2 for installing a bioinformatics
> software called VMD. I notice that Mesa needs libdrm so I download the
> libdrm package from dri.freedesktop.org/libdrm. I use the version of
> 2.4.3.
> 
> Libdrm complied and installed well, then when I do configuration Mesa
> shows following error messages.
> 
> checking for LIBDRM... Package libdrm was not found in the pkg-config
> search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libdrm.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'libdrm' found
> configure: error: Package requirements (libdrm >= 2.3.1) were not met:
> 
> 
> 
> Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
> installed software in a non-standard prefix.
> 
> Alternatively, you may set the environment variables LIBDRM_CFLAGS
> and LIBDRM_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
> See the pkg-config man page for more details.
> 
> However, I suppose that I have installed such package, so I don't know
> how to go on. Could anyone how to fix that problem? My OS is Cent OS
> 4.7 with kernel version of 2.6.9-78.EL.

find where is installed libdrm.pc 

locate libdrm.pc

and do a 
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/
according where you find libdrm.pc

Regards, 
-- 
Sérgio M. B.