[install] [curl] cannot finish ./configure

Hi guys, i tried to add curl support to my php-4.3.11, and now with new php-4.4.0, and i can't finish ./configure. i run debian woody with some backports (curl and libcurl are one of them). command line: ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs --with-curl [and other --with] here is the result: [...] checking for CURL support... yes checking for CURL in default path... found in /usr checking for cURL 7.9.8 or greater... configure: error: cURL version 7.9.8 or later is required to compile php with cURL support 21:09 ulyze php-4.4.0% curl --version curl 7.13.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.13.2 OpenSSL/0.9.6c zlib/1.1.4 Protocols: ftp gopher telnet dict ldap http file https ftps Features: IPv6 Largefile NTLM SSL libz as you can see, my curl is recent enough. one would say that ./configure compares versions as strings, and obviously 7.9xx < 7.1xx ! what's the problem ? shall i forget the use of curl ? :)