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 Installation Instructions for PHP 4.0
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-Note!  PHP will requires GNU make.  Check this by typing: make --version
-If it does not say GNU Make, please install it.
-
 For the impatient here is a quick set of steps that will build PHP as
 first a dynamic Apache module (DSO) for Apache 1.3.x with MySQL support 
 and then a static module.  A more verbose explanation follows.