PHP with cURL

Hello everyone, I am running PHP4 on a FreeBDB 2.2.8 machine. This version of PHP what not build --with-curl. I installed cURL in a custom account /u/myaccount as my hostmaster doesn't let me install in user/local. Now I am running the following piece of code from a HTML page: <?php exec("curl http://www.ormetal.com/thanks.html",$results, $rc); reset($results); echo $results; echo $rc; ?> Which doesn't work of course. $results contains "ARRAY" and $rc=127 My question: Even if I am not using the specific curl_..() functions that access the curl libraries and instead calling directly the curl standalone program, do I need to have PHP4 made --with-curl Thanks Claude