This VS that?

I was reading through the installation help on php.net and noticed this little option for configure ./configure --with-apache=/path/to/apache_source And the text that follows. "This will create a libmodphp4.a library, a mod_php4.c and some accompanying files and copy this into the src/modules/php4 directory in the Apache source tree. Then you compile Apache using --activate-module=src/modules/php4/libphp4.a and the Apache build system will create libphp4.a and link it statically into the httpd binary." Now, is there anything to be won with using this method than the "usual" (in my case ./configure --with-apxs2=/bla/blabla? // Ken