More fuel, I'm a csh user and found that behaviour is better under sh or ksh.
e.g. %sh $ INCLUDES="-I/usr/local/BerkeleyDB/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB/lib" LIBS="-ldb" ./configure --prefix=`pwd` --enable-shared=max --enable-module=all --activate-module=src/modules/php4/libphp4.a Produces a working httpd. I suggest updating the INSTALL document to include the following: Configuration and compilation of apache works best when performed using 'sh' or 'ksh'. C-shell users may experience bizarre results. I have still not taken apart configure to determine why it supresses the defaults.