comment on commit says http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/configure.ac?id=2224fb6047dd96cbc11d7f2093319e5eb49c0b6b that ident is only required if we want "pretty code" so if I am not openGL developer it doesn't matter to me if code is pretty or not :) Reproducible: Always
on my machine (x86) mesa-8.1 without ident builds fine and works fine too for about 1 week
So the options are 1. keep indent as hard dependency 2. let configure automagically detect it 3. patch build system to make indent configurable
indent dependency removed, since it only indents compiled code and not installed headers.