Upgrading PHP help

[Karabaja]

I am currently using 5.0.4, I updated to it with yum since host had 4.3.2 installed. Now I was informed by vbulletin support that this version is full of bugs and not really compatible with vbulletin(bulletin board software). I had no problems with yum since upgrade was mostly automatic. I did have to edit few config files later. But now I would need to compile it, and it is important that it is compiled with GD image libraries since they are needed for vbulletin. When I upgraded to 5.0.4 with yum I ended up with php without GD.

So I need help on what to download, which version do you suggest. I tried upgrading last night but no success. I downloaded 5.1.6 tar.gz, decompressed it then ran ./configure with some option. And when I tried "make" it gave me error something like no target etc.

I would really appreciate if someone could write me in few steps what I should do. What options to compile with. All I know it has to have mysql and gd enabled, as for the rest I am not sure. And that it should have some line referring to apache. My php.ini is at /usr/local/Zend/etc if that is relevant.

[eelixduppy]

The Installation on Unix Systems [us3.php.net] Documentation may help you. Also the GD FAQ [boutell.com] will help you getting it to work with PHP.

Good luck! I hope this has helped some.