libcurl4 not usable during ccminer build configure

Question

I'm trying to build ccminer from source, but whenever I do ./configure I run into the following error:

checking for curl-config... /opt/anaconda3/bin/curl-config

checking for the version of libcurl... 7.55.1

checking for libcurl >= version 7.15.2... yes

checking whether libcurl is usable... no

configure: error: Missing required libcurl >= 7.15.2

libcurl 7.55 is clearly detected, and I've tried both: apt install libcurl4-openssl-dev and apt install libcurl4-gnutls-dev so I should have the header files

do you think the problem might have something to do with the fact that it's checking in the anaconda3 directory for the config file?

Answer 1

I also had this issue, the quick and dirty solution is to remove libcurl from anaconda.

conda remove curl

Answer 2

An additional solution, that is not quite as dirty, is to move the reference to the anaconda bin in your PATH environment variable from the beginning to the end.

Typing $PATH into your console should print your PATH environment variable:

$PATH
bash: /media/user/Data/Python/anaconda3/bin:/home/user/bin:

To move it to the end:

PATH='/home/user/bin:/media/user/Data/Python/anaconda3/bin:'

Try running ./configure again and it should succeed.

I would also recommend saving the contents of the PATH to a text file before you mess with it just in case you mess something up and need to revert.