This time I tried both "--with-zlib" & "--with-zlib-dir=/usr" Unfortunately I get the same error.
here are the last fewlines of the config.log configure:29785: checking for fabsf configure:29813: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -lz -lresolv -lm -ldl -lnsl 1>&5 configure:29797: warning: conflicting types for built-in function `fabsf' configure:29785: checking for floorf configure:29813: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -lz -lresolv -lm -ldl -lnsl 1>&5 Rob Lloyd wrote: > > Newbie trying to install php 4.3.4 on RH9 w/ apache 2.0. Also my first time > > posting to this group. > > > > tried: > > ./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysql --enable-t > > rack-vars --with-xmlrpc --with-gd --enable-mbstring=all -enable-mbregex --wi > > th-zlib-dir=/usr/include > > Try "--with-zlib-dir=/usr", so configure can find the header file /usr/include/zlib.h as > well as the library /usr/lib/libz.so. Probably --with-zlib is enough, either.