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iPhone SDK makes building PHP tricky

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This morning, I needed to rebuild PHP.  I haven’t done it in months, but was sure it would be painless.  I hadn’t counted on, however, that I’d installed the iPhone SDK at the beginning of this month.  The iPhone SDK is Xcode 3.1, which I believe is beta (might not be, no real research.)  I think that it also installs gcc 4.2.  I forgot both of these facts before I tried to configure my php build.  Upon my inital pass, I was greeted with the following error:

configure: warning: –with-zlib: invalid host type
configure: warning: –with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql: invalid host type
configure: error: can only configure for one host and one target at a time

I, of course, didn’t bother to properly troubleshoot the error, as I didn’t really have time to track down a solution.  I did, however, manage to get a build in place.  I removed the current install of my developer tools, ala:

sudo /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all

And then I proceeded to reinstall the tools on my Leopard DVD.  I restarted for good measure, and was off to the races.  Have any of you encountered this issue?

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