build from source pointing to installed libs (e.g. pcre)

[Edho Arief]

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:11 PM, anthony kerz <anthony.kerz at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> i'm trying to build from source on an ubuntu system which has libpcre3
> installed:
>
> tony at quantal:~/Downloads/nginx-1.3.14$ dpkg -l | grep pcre
> ii libpcre3:i386 1:8.30-5ubuntu1 i386 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression
> Library - runtime files
>
> but i can't for the life of me get the configure script to resolve to this,
> libpcre.so.3 is in /lib/i386-linux-gnu, so i've tried:
>
> --with-ld-opt="-L/lib/i386-linux-gnu"
>
> but still get:
> -----------------
> ...
> checking for PCRE library ... not found
> checking for PCRE library in /usr/local/ ... not found
> checking for PCRE library in /usr/include/pcre/ ... not found
> checking for PCRE library in /usr/pkg/ ... not found
> checking for PCRE library in /opt/local/ ... not found
>
> ./configure: error: the HTTP rewrite module requires the PCRE library.
> You can either disable the module by using --without-http_rewrite_module
> option, or install the PCRE library into the system, or build the PCRE
> library
> statically from the source with nginx by using --with-pcre=<path> option.
> ----------------
>
> any guidance appreciated!
>

building stuff from source require installation of development
(-dev/-devel) packages of its dependencies in ubuntu, rhel, and some
other distros.

(read: try installing libpcre3-dev)

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