php with Curl?

Here's a new one... I just tried to compile PHP --with-curl. I have Curl v 9.4.4, which the PHP site says should be fine, and I am using PHP 4.3.1 (snapshot from Feb 25). The snapshot tells me I should have Curl 9.8 or higher. Has anybody successfully compiled with curl? I have curl installed via RPM, and am really hesitant to just uninstall that, since it will cause bonus buncha dependencies to fail... Additionally, I am hesitant to just compile curl 10.3 (the latest source available), as I am not sure how the rpm is going to react to that... Any words of wisdom from the gurus that be? Thanks! Justin