Just spent the better portion of my day fixing a buggered PHP installation…

The magic line:
–with-mysql –enable-shmop –enable-track-vars –enable-sockets –enable-sysvsem –enable-sysvshm –enable-magic-quotes –enable-mbstring –with-curl –with-mcrypt –with-freetype-dir=/usr –with-exec-dir=/usr/bin –with-mhash=shared –with-pear=/usr/share/pear –with-zlib –with-openssl –with-xml –enable-gd-native-ttf –with-png –with-zlib –with-zlib-dir=/usr –with-jpeg-dir=/usr –with-png-dir=/usr –with-gd=/usr

^^ MAKE SURE –with-gd=/usr is at THE END