Finally I was able to compile nginx and of course I'd like to share this with you. Seems like the order of the configure options was the problem. I used the following configure argument order and it compiled without any problems.

nginx version: nginx/1.4.0
built by gcc 4.7.2 (Debian 4.7.2-5)
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --user=www-data --group=www-data --prefix=/usr/local --sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --lock-path=/var/lock/nginx.lock --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --http-client-body-temp-path=/dev/shm/nginx/client-body/tmp --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/dev/shm/nginx/fastcgi/tmp --with-ipv6 --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_spdy_module --with-openssl=/usr/local/src/nginx/openssl-1.0.1e --with-md5=/usr/local/src/nginx/openssl-1.0.1e --with-md5-asm --with-sha1=/usr/local/src/nginx/openssl-1.0.1e --with-sha1-asm --with-pcre=/usr/local/src/nginx/pcre-8.32 --with-pcre-jit --with-zlib=/usr/local/src/nginx/zlib --without-http_autoindex_module --without-http_auth_basic_module --without-http_browser_module --without-http_geo_module --without-http_limit_conn_module --without-http_limit_req_module --without-http_map_module --without-http_memcached_module --without-http_proxy_module --without-http_referer_module --without-http_scgi_module --without-http_split_clients_module --without-http_ssi_module --without-http_upstream_ip_hash_module --without-http_userid_module --without-http_uwsgi_module --without-mail_pop3_module --without-mail_imap_module --without-mail_smtp_module --add-module=/usr/local/src/nginx/nginx-upload-progress-module --add-module=/usr/local/src/nginx/nginx-upstream-fair

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