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Thanks.
I should have specified that I am installing with apache 1.3.29
I also should have noted that I apt-get removed apache, php and mysql from
the knoppix dist.

I sorta prefer to do a manual install than to install a package. This way
I can be sure to get the features that I want (or have no success
installing it!!!) :)

How did you specify using the debian installed libtool? I haven't been
able to see any documentation regarding that.

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> I had some trouble building and installing PHP on debian maybe a month and
> a
> half ago. I'm fairly new to debian as well (and linux too for that
> matter),
> but its starting to warm up on me. Eventually, I did get php to build and
> install from the source. However, I built it with a new build of apache2
> (also from source) and I think this is how it worked:
>
> When building apache2 I had to make sure to use the debian installed
> libtool
> (/usr/bin/libtool), not the one that came with the new apache2. This was
> something I had to do in the configuration of the build of apache2. After
> that, the build and install went just fine. Although, I did find that I
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> Using current stable releases of httpd and php and installing as
>> indicated
>> in the manual
>> http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.apache.php
>> with a few extra configure options...
>> full configure statement:
>> ./configure --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-axps=/www/bin/apxs
>> --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib --with-png-dir=/usr/lib --with-zlib-dir
>> --with-ttf --with-freetype-dir=/usr/lib --with-t1lib --enable-ftp
>> --enable-exif
>>
>> It's not putting libphp4.so in /www/libexec or anywhere for that matter.
>>
>> So I can't update httpd.conf to AddModule... :(