Error during compilation from source - bin/sh: line 2: ./configure: No such file or directory

fix-make-error-configure-no-such-file.txt

If you happen to see this error during compilation for programs, for example that's nginx in my case:

...
./configure --disable-shared
/bin/sh: line 2: ./configure: No such file or directory
...

In this case I already configured nginx with my custom-built PCRE library:

./configure --with-pcre=<path-to-lib-containing-pcre>

However, specifying --with-pcre instructs the program to use the path as the source dir to build instead of using it as the installation dir for PCRE. To achieve what we actually want, use --with-cc-opt and --with-ld-opt options as a replacement:

./configure --with-cc-opt=-I<pcre-install-dir>/include --with-ld-opt=-L<pcre-install-dir>/lib

Works like magic!