php 4.0.6 configure script fails

Hi there, I seems to have discovered a problem with the configure script when you use the option --with-apxs2 (so you can use php4 under Apache 2.0). this is the command I try: ./configure --with-mysql --enable-force-cgi-redirect --with-apxs2=/usr/local /apache2/bin/apxs it fails with: ------ checking for c++... no checking for g++... no checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C++ compiler (gcc ) works... no configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables. ------ Before you say I am an idiot and that I have a bad install of gcc (could be true, but doubt it). I would like to point out that if I run the configure script with the option --with-apxs it completes the configuration process but tells me that there is probably an error with my apxs script. So basically I am wondering if anyone else has come across this problem and solved it??? knows of another way to get php4 working with apache2. Thanks in advance. Tony