Why don't you try irc.openprojects.net #php for help on compiling.  They're 
the nicest people =)  Whats the error message that you get?

On Monday October 21 2002 4:00 am, Brian Tafoya wrote:
> OK... I have spent several days tryinng to compile PHP 4.2.3, latest 1.+
> Apache, and absolutely NO LUCK! Has anyone tried compliling from source
> under Redhat 8 and been successful? All of the lists, AZPHPUG,
> Apachetoolbox, etc, all are having issues but does not seem to be resolved
> by anyone. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
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> Brian Tafoya
> http://briantafoya.com/
> c:\windows, c:\windows\run, c:\windows\crash!