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I am trying to compile nginx with a module: https://github.com/leev/ngx_http_geoip2_module. Before the nginx compilation, this library: https://github.com/maxmind/libmaxminddb needs to be installed. I followed the instructions (https://github.com/maxmind/libmaxminddb/blob/master/README.md#installing-from-a-tarball), compiled and installed the library. After the installation, ldconfig -p | grep maxminddb gives:

libmaxminddb.so.0 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/local/lib/libmaxminddb.so.0

libmaxminddb.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/local/lib/libmaxminddb.so

However, when I configure nginx with ngx_http_geoip2_module, it complains during configure:

adding module in /home/cilium/ngx_http_geoip2_module

checking for MaxmindDB library ... not found

./configure: error: the geoip2 module requires the maxminddb library.

which is exactly the library I've already installed. This error seems to come from the config file of ngx_http_geoip2_module:

ngx_feature="MaxmindDB library"

ngx_feature_name=

ngx_feature_run=no

ngx_feature_incs="#include <maxminddb.h>"

ngx_feature_libs=-lmaxminddb

. auto/feature



if [ $ngx_found = yes ]; then

    ngx_addon_name=ngx_http_geoip2_module

    HTTP_MODULES="$HTTP_MODULES ngx_http_geoip2_module"

    NGX_ADDON_SRCS="$NGX_ADDON_SRCS $ngx_addon_dir/ngx_http_geoip2_module.c"

    CORE_LIBS="$CORE_LIBS -lmaxminddb"

else   

    cat << END

$0: error: the geoip2 module requires the maxminddb library.

END

    exit 1

fi

Does anyone know what may have gone wrong here?

UPDATE: some relevant output by sh -x ./configure ..:

+ echo adding module in /home/cilium/ngx_http_geoip2_module

adding module in /home/cilium/ngx_http_geoip2_module

+ test -f /home/cilium/ngx_http_geoip2_module/config

+ . /home/cilium/ngx_http_geoip2_module/config

+ ngx_feature=MaxmindDB library

+ ngx_feature_name=

+ ngx_feature_run=no

+ ngx_feature_incs=#include <maxminddb.h>

+ ngx_feature_libs=-lmaxminddb

+ . auto/feature

+ echo checking for MaxmindDB library ...c

checking for MaxmindDB library ...+ cat

+ ngx_found=no

+ test -n



...



+ [ -x objs/autotest ]

+ echo  not found

 not found

+ echo ----------

+ cat objs/autotest.c

+ echo ----------

+ echo cc -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Wformat-security -Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I /home/cilium/ngx_pagespeed-release-1.9.32.1-beta/psol/include -I /home/cilium/ngx_pagespeed-release-1.9.32.1-beta/psol/include/third_party/chromium/src -I /home/cilium/ngx_pagespeed-release-1.9.32.1-beta/psol/include/third_party/google-sparsehash/src -I /home/cilium/ngx_pagespeed-release-1.9.32.1-beta/psol/include/third_party/google-sparsehash/gen/arch/linux/x64/include -I /home/cilium/ngx_pagespeed-release-1.9.32.1-beta/psol/include/third_party/protobuf/src -I /home/cilium/ngx_pagespeed-release-1.9.32.1-beta/psol/include/third_party/re2/src -I /home/cilium/ngx_pagespeed-release-1.9.32.1-beta/psol/include/out/Debug/obj/gen -I /home/cilium/ngx_pagespeed-release-1.9.32.1-beta/psol/include/out/Debug/obj/gen/protoc_out/instaweb -I /home/cilium/ngx_pagespeed-release-1.9.32.1-beta/psol/include/third_party/apr/src/include -I /home/cilium/ngx_pagespeed-release-1.9.32.1-beta/psol/include/third_party/aprutil/src/include -I /home/cilium/ngx_pagespeed-release-1.9.32.1-beta/psol/include/third_party/apr/gen/arch/linux/x64/include -I /home/cilium/ngx_pagespeed-release-1.9.32.1-beta/psol/include/third_party/aprutil/gen/arch/linux/x64/include -o objs/autotest objs/autotest.c -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -lmaxminddb

+ echo ----------

+ rm -rf objs/autotest.c

+ [ no = yes ]

+ cat

./configure: error: the geoip2 module requires the maxminddb library.

+ exit 1

To anyone having this problem, here is the solution:

1. git clone --recursive https://github.com/maxmind/libmaxminddb
   


2. cd libmaxminddb


3. ./bootstrap


4. ./configure


5. make


6. make install

I noticed that initially after cloning there was no configure executable, but after running ./bootstrap, it got created.
Then i run ./configure, make, make install, and then i noticed that within the folder /usr/local/include maxminddb_config.h and maxminddb.h were created.

Then i run my installation nginx script and there were no errors anymore.