It seems to be a hard dependency. The compilation stops with Making all in targets/dri make[3]: Entering directory `/home/almos/SRC/mesa/src/gallium/targets/dri' CC gallium_dri_la-target.lo CXXLD gallium_dri.la /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ledit collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [gallium_dri.la] Error 1
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