./configure: error: no ~/nginx-auth-ldap/config was found

Question

Trying to build nginx per this guide: https://calvin.me/nginx-ldap-http-authentication/

I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 and used nginx 1.12.2 instead of what he has in that guide. I modified his build script to this:

./configure --user=nginx --group=nginx --prefix=/etc/nginx --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --lock-path=/var/run/nginx.lock --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_ssl_module --with-pcre --with-file-aio --with-http_realip_module --add-module=~/nginx-auth-ldap --with-ipv6 --with-debug

I'm getting this as an error but that claimed "not found" really does exist.

me@ubuntu:~/nginx-1.12.2$ sudo ./configure --user=nginx --group=nginx --prefix=/etc/nginx --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --lock-path=/var/run/nginx.lock --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_ssl_module --with-pcre --with-file-aio --with-http_realip_module --add-module=~/nginx-auth-ldap --with-ipv6 --with-debug
checking for OS
 + Linux 4.4.0-116-generic x86_64
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 + gcc version: 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 
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configuring additional modules
adding module in ~/nginx-auth-ldap
./configure: error: no ~/nginx-auth-ldap/config was found

directory

me@ubuntu:~/nginx-auth-ldap$ ls
config  example.conf  LICENSE  ngx_http_auth_ldap_module.c  README.md

Answer 1

The problem is with the ~, if you use $HOME instead, this should work.

The shell's tilde expansion is a bit weird... In general, it only happens at the start of a word.

The shell does tilde expansion right after a =, but only if it's a variable assignment (as in enviroment variable), which is not the case here.

Your options are either to use something like $HOME, which should be expanded reliably, or to use a space instead of the = when passing the argument, such as --add-module ~/nginx-auth-ldap. Either should work fine.