config fails with little debug info

Hi, I get the following mesage when I attempt to configure php php-4.3.4 on a Dell Optiplex GX 270 running Red Hat Linux version 2.4.9-e.30. The machine has 1 gig of menory and an 80 gig IDE hard drive. As you can see, the configure fails and directs me to the debug.log. I have copied the brief listing of the debug log below the attention box. This is my first attempt to install and configure php ( a proof of concept test), and the debug.log seems to be rather lacking in an error mesage that would point me in any direction. Any thoughts, comments and / or ridicule you send to me will surely be read with care. The version of Apache that is installed on the server is apache 1.3.29. Thank you, Dave Gregoire

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| Something is likely to be messed up here, because the configure    |
| script was not able to detect a simple feature on your platform.     |

| This is often caused by incorrect configuration parameters. Please |

| see the file debug.log for error messages.                                     |
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| information about your setup.      

CONFIGURE: './configure'

CC:         gcc
CFLAGS:     -g -O2
CPPFLAGS:   CXX:        CXXFLAGS:   INCLUDES:    -I$(top_builddir)/Zend
LDFLAGS:    LIBS:       -lcrypt -lresolv -lm -ldl -lnsl  -lcrypt
DLIBS:      SAPI:       cgi

PHP_RPATHS: uname -a: Linux cp826-37b 2.4.9-e.30smp #1 SMP Fri Nov 28 07:18:53 EST 2003 i686 unknown