glEnd error (mesa-libGL/GLU) installing "rgl" package on Centos6.7

Question

I try to install "rgl" on CentOS 6.7 but I cannot make it works.
Saw numerous similar issues but no solution worked for me.

My system:

Centos 6.7
R version 3.2.3 (2015-12-10) -- "Wooden Christmas-Tree"
Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit)

NOTE : The problem evolved, you can jump directly to the UPDATE part. I will reformat whole post when the problem will be solved.

The error (using bioconductor)

source("https://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite("rgl")
...
configure: error: X11 not found but required, configure aborted.
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgl’
* removing ‘/usr/lib64/R/library/rgl’

same issue using

install.packages("rgl", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")

I tried solution here
How to install R “rgl” package under centos 6?

Here is my installed X11 library :

>yum list installed |grep X11  
libX11.x86_64                          1.6.0-6.el6                      @base   
libX11-common.noarch                   1.6.0-6.el6                      @base   
libX11-devel.x86_64                    1.6.0-6.el6                      @base 

But it still fails.

I also installed devtools and imported library, it does not fixed the issue.

source("https://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
library(devtools)
biocLite("rgl")
... same issue

Spent hours on it, nothing worked

NB : I successfully installed it on my ubuntu, but there is no way to make it works on centos6.7 (the workstation)

UPDATE
Find that libpng-devel was missing (already had, libpng, libpng10, libpng10-devel)

sudo yum install libpng-devel.x86_64 

The error changed I then added more missing libraries

sudo yum install mesa-libGL
sudo yum install mesa-libGL-devel
sudo yum install mesa-libGLU
sudo yum install mesa-libGLU-devel

The error changed I am still having problem

* installing *source* package ‘rgl’ ...
** package ‘rgl’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
checking for gcc... gcc -m64 -std=gnu99
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 -m64 -std=gnu99 accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -E
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc -m64 -std=gnu99
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking whether __attribute__((visibility())) is supported... yes
checking whether gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 accepts -fvisibility... yes
checking whether  accepts -fvisibility... no
checking for libpng-config... yes
configure: using libpng-config
configure: using libpng dynamic linkage
checking for X... libraries , headers 
checking GL/gl.h usability... yes
checking GL/gl.h presence... yes
checking for GL/gl.h... yes
checking GL/glu.h usability... yes
checking GL/glu.h presence... yes
checking for GL/glu.h... yes
checking for glEnd in -lGL... no
configure: error: missing required library GL
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgl’

Now if i locate libGL

locate libGL
/usr/lib/libGL.la
/usr/lib/libGL.so
/usr/lib/libGL.so.1
/usr/lib/libGL.so.361.28
/usr/lib/libGLESv1_CM.so
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/usr/lib/libGLESv2.so.2
/usr/lib/libGLESv2_nvidia.so.2
/usr/lib/libGLESv2_nvidia.so.361.28
/usr/lib/libGLX_indirect.so.0
/usr/lib/libGLX_nvidia.so.0
/usr/lib/libGLX_nvidia.so.361.28
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/usr/lib64/libGL.so
/usr/lib64/libGL.so.1
/usr/lib64/libGL.so.361.28
/usr/lib64/libGLESv1_CM.so
/usr/lib64/libGLESv1_CM.so.1
/usr/lib64/libGLESv1_CM_nvidia.so.1
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/usr/lib64/libGLESv2_nvidia.so.2
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/usr/lib64/libGLX_nvidia.so.0
/usr/lib64/libGLX_nvidia.so.361.28
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/usr/lib64/libGLw.so
/usr/lib64/libGLw.so.1
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UPDATE2:
Following @MartinMorgan help I downloaded ligGL package and configured it manually

./configure

gave me

configure: error: Direct rendering requires libdrm >= 2.4.38

So I had to install libdrm-devel

sudo yum install libdrm-devel

Then once again, error update!

configure: error: DRI3 requires xcb >= 1.9.3

But centos has the 1.9.1 installed

I decided to do it manually

wget https://xcb.freedesktop.org/dist/libxcb-1.9.3.tar.gz

But when I hit configure, it tell me that it needs xcb-proto 1.9
Yum repository for centOS6 only provide 1.8

Once again I went manually

wget https://xcb.freedesktop.org/dist/xcb-proto-1.9.tar.gz

But when I make install of it and go back to libxcb-1.9.3 it does not detect that xcb-proto is installed.

Whereas if I install the 1.8 xcb-proto from repositor, it detect it and tell me it is out of date.

By looking when xcb-proto 1.8 is installed with

rpm -ql xcb-proto

Output is

/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xcbgen
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xcbgen/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xcbgen/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xcbgen/__init__.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xcbgen/error.py
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xcbgen/error.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xcbgen/error.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xcbgen/expr.py
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xcbgen/expr.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xcbgen/expr.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xcbgen/matcher.py
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xcbgen/matcher.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xcbgen/matcher.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xcbgen/state.py
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xcbgen/state.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xcbgen/state.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xcbgen/xtypes.py
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xcbgen/xtypes.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/xcbgen/xtypes.pyo
/usr/share/doc/xcb-proto-1.8
/usr/share/doc/xcb-proto-1.8/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/xcb-proto-1.8/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/xcb-proto-1.8/README
/usr/share/doc/xcb-proto-1.8/TODO
/usr/share/doc/xcb-proto-1.8/xml-xcb.txt
/usr/share/pkgconfig/xcb-proto.pc
/usr/share/xcb
/usr/share/xcb/bigreq.xml
/usr/share/xcb/composite.xml
/usr/share/xcb/damage.xml
/usr/share/xcb/dpms.xml
/usr/share/xcb/dri2.xml
/usr/share/xcb/ge.xml
/usr/share/xcb/glx.xml
/usr/share/xcb/randr.xml
/usr/share/xcb/record.xml
/usr/share/xcb/render.xml
/usr/share/xcb/res.xml
/usr/share/xcb/screensaver.xml
/usr/share/xcb/shape.xml
/usr/share/xcb/shm.xml
/usr/share/xcb/sync.xml
/usr/share/xcb/xc_misc.xml
/usr/share/xcb/xcb.xsd
/usr/share/xcb/xevie.xml
/usr/share/xcb/xf86dri.xml
/usr/share/xcb/xf86vidmode.xml
/usr/share/xcb/xfixes.xml
/usr/share/xcb/xinerama.xml
/usr/share/xcb/xinput.xml
/usr/share/xcb/xkb.xml
/usr/share/xcb/xprint.xml
/usr/share/xcb/xproto.xml
/usr/share/xcb/xselinux.xml
/usr/share/xcb/xtest.xml
/usr/share/xcb/xv.xml
/usr/share/xcb/xvmc.xml

Whereas xcb-proto use python 2.7
I do not understand well the difference between how the system finds packages installed by yum and how it finds them when they are installed from tarball.

Answer 1

This is the packages that I use to get rgl on 6.7 (and 7.x)

yum install mesa-libGLU-devel libGL-devel libpng-devel libX11-devel