Help!!! CVS install broke for me!

ok, i do a make and it makes fine but when the make install i get an infinite loop of this error: Warning: mkdir(): File exists in /usr/local/src/php4/pear/System.php on line 235 I went to the code and i tried putting a line that says this: if(file_exists("$newdir")) { $ret = exec("/bin/rm -rf $newdir"); } I put that right above the line thats erroring in the while loop. It fixed the problem with that but then when it gets to XML_RPC the CPU usage goes up to 100% and will not output any errors or anything. It looks like its caught in a loop.... anyway, anyone have any ideas?? my systems is FreeBSD 4.6 apache 1.3.26 libtool 1.4 autoconf 2.53 automake 1.5 configure line: ./configure --with-imap=/usr/local --with-xml --with-mysql --enable-track-va rs --with-mm=/usr/local --with-gettext --with-mcrypt=/usr/local --enable-ftp --enable-sockets --with-apache=../apache_1.3.26