Building gst-plugins 0.8.10, it errored out eventually with the following:

Looks like the auto* stuff isn't checking for libGLU, and disabling this plugin
if it's not present.

 gcc -shared  .libs/libgstglimagesink_la-glimagesink.o  -Wl,--rpath
-Wl,/home/msmith/src/gst-plugins-0.8.10/gst-libs/gst/.libs -pthread
/usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.8.so /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so
/usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so /usr/lib/libxml2.so
-lz -lm /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lXext -lGL -lGLU
../../gst-libs/gst/.libs/libgstinterfaces-0.8.so  -Wl,--export-dynamic
-Wl,-soname -Wl,libgstglimagesink.so -Wl,-version-script
-Wl,.libs/libgstglimagesink.ver -o .libs/libgstglimagesink.so
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGLU
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [libgstglimagesink.la] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/msmith/src/gst-plugins-0.8.10/sys/glsink'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/msmith/src/gst-plugins-0.8.10/sys'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/msmith/src/gst-plugins-0.8.10'
make: *** [all] Error 2