[code] >strings /usr/local/lib/libGeoIP.so | grep GeoIP_region_name_by_code GeoIP_region_name_by_code [/code] After checking this i found two instances of geoip libraries installed on the system, so removed the old library and now nginx compiles, Thank you Igor. Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,153558,153643#msg-153643