Due to patch "LU-9897 build: use pkgconf for detecting libblkid" recently landed in master (https://review.whamcloud.com/35531), it is quite complicated to understand which package to install in order to comply with 'blkid' requirements.

Indeed, the error message says:

configure: error: Package requirements (blkid) were not met:

No package 'blkid' found

but the actual name of the package is libblkid-devel on CentOS and libblkid-dev on Ubuntu.

Moreover, this check for blkid should not be carried out when building client only (--disable-server configure option).