mod6: I'm taking some notes here too, might be useful for ya. turns out that i needed a zlip-devel too before the apache config completed successfully. Will share when done.
mod6: ahem. zlib-devel
BingoBoingo: What are you putting the stack together on?
mod6: centos 6.9
mod6: bbl f00d
mod6: ok, PHP built. gonna call it a day, will continue on later. thanks for the instructions BB.