If you have installed PHP 5.2.6 from the test repo

/etc/yum.repos.d/centos-test.repo: 
[c5-testing] 
name=CentOS-5 Testing 
baseurl=http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/testing/$basearch/ 
enabled=1 
gpgcheck=1 
gpgkey=http://dev.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-testing 

instead of the default 5.1.6, some aditional changes have to be made in order to compile properly.

In php.spec:
Original:

Patch0: php-5.2.6-suhosin.patch 
Patch1: php-5.2.4-gnusrc.patch
 ..... 
%patch0 -p1 -b .suhosin 
%patch1 -p1 -b .gnusrc 

Replace with:

Patch0: php-5.2.6-suhosin.patch 
#Patch1: php-5.2.4-gnusrc.patch
 ..... 
%patch0 -p1 -b .suhosin 
#%patch1 -p1 -b .gnusrc 

I had to comment out the php-5.2.4-gnusrc.patch because of a tip found here.

After that, libiconv wasn't found; so i changed in "php.spec" line 398:
--with-iconv \

to:

--with-iconv=/usr/local/lib/libiconv.so \

And than it compiled correctly:




@falko: Thanks for your GREAT guides! It really helps a lot :D