Building PHP 5.4.3 from source under RHEL 5/6.

gistfile1.sh

## Building PHP 5.4.3 under Red Hat Linux 5/6 for php CLI and php-fpm (FastCGI for Nginx/etc.)
## Adjust your included PHP modules to suit.


$ yum install libxml2-devel libcurl-devel libjpeg-devel libpng-devel libmcrypt-devel
- Note: package 'libcurl-devel' is named 'curl-devel' under RHEL 5
$ mkdir /php/compile/path
$ cd /php/compile/path
$ wget http://au2.php.net/get/php-5.4.3.tar.gz/from/au.php.net/mirror
$ tar xvf php-5.4.3.tar.gz
$ cd php-5.4.3
- Now configure
	./configure \
		--with-curl=/usr/bin \
		--with-curlwrappers \
		--with-gd \
		--with-iconv-dir=/usr \
		--with-jpeg-dir=/usr \
		--with-mcrypt \
		--with-mysqli \
		--with-pdo-mysql \
		--with-png-dir=/usr \
		--enable-fpm \
		--enable-mbstring \
		--enable-soap \
		--disable-cgi \
		--disable-debug \
		--disable-fileinfo \
		--disable-filter \
		--disable-phar \
		--disable-simplexml \
		--disable-tokenizer \
		--disable-xmlreader \
		--disable-xmlwriter \
		--without-pdo-sqlite \
		--without-pear \
		--without-sqlite3 \
		--with-config-file-path=/etc/php5
$ make
$ make install
- Done!