Workarounds for PHP5 on Mac OS X

Hello, The mailing lists site said this was the list for those who want to help with development of PHP. I hope this is the right list. I am running Mac OS 10.3.2 (Client, not server) and tried to compile PHP5.0.0RC3. Here is my configure: ./configure --with-apxs \ --with-config-file-path=/etc/ \ --enable-safe-mode \ --with-openssl \ --with-zlib \ --with-cpdflib=/usr/local \ --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/lib \ --with-tiff-dir==/usr/local/ \ --enable-exif \ --with-gd \ --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql \ --with-snmp \ --enable-soap \ --enable-sockets \ --with-sqlite=/usr/local My first problem was with libxml2: Configuring extensions checking whether to enable LIBXML support... yes checking libxml2 install dir... no configure: error: libxml2 version 2.5.10 or greater required. libxml2 comes with Mac 10.3.2 but its version is less than 2.5.10 (It's 2.5.4 in /usr/include/libxml2/libxml) I downloaded newest source from xmlsoft.org and it compiled perfectly with no modifications into /usr/local/lib/ Ran configure again, same args. New problem with cpdflib. It didn't come with 10.3.2. Downloaded 2.02r1 source. Used the Makefile.MacOSX. Compiled fine with no modifications and installed into /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/includes Ran configure again..same error. After many trials I come to realize that the cpdflib makefile created a library called "libcpdfm.a" instead of "libcpdf.a" Note the extra 'm' in the filename. Looking through all of the makefiles for other operating systems, this was apparently normal. I created a symlink from libcpdfm.a to libcpdf.a and then the configure ran perfectly. Compiled and installed fine as well with no further modifications. http://drmac.homeunix.net/phpinfo.php Hope this helps in some way so others don't have the same cpdflib problem I did. Cheers, Matthew