64bit PHP 5.2.5 Compile Error (Fedora Core 8)

I recently moved over to the 64bit version of Fedora Core 8.

My plan was to compile both Apache and PHP from source, as they require a fair amount of customisations for my needs.

The Apache compile went without problems but using my regular configure directives for PHP (5.2.5) threw this error:

This confused me a little and I spent quite some time investigating possible issues with MySQL. The config.log was pretty useless!

After a fair amount of reading I came across this directive that solved the issue (should have known!):

So my final configure command looked like –with-mysql –with-openssl –with-curl

No more errors! Joy ;]