AMD64 and libdir Broken?

Some time ago we talked about compiling PHP on an AMD64. Joe Orton was kind enough to patch the 5.1 branch to include the --with-libdir directive to ./configure to allow for searching in libs in such places as /lib64 and /usr/lib64 and it worked great. However, after downloading the php5-200502052330.tar.gz snapshot, things seem broken again. My ./configure starts out like this: ./configure --with-libdir=lib64 --prefix=/usr/local/php --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs ..... Which had worked fine before. However, when compiling this snapshot, I get the original errors during link time, such as: *** Warning: linker path does not have real file for library -lxml2. *** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when *** you link to this library. But I can only do this if you have a *** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have *** because I did check the linker path looking for a file starting *** with libxml2 and none of the candidates passed a file format test *** using a file magic. Last file checked: /lib/libdl-2.3.3.so Thus, libphp5.so isn't created. Seems like Joe's patch was broken somehow or somehow changed. Any news or ideas? Many thanks, --- Hans Zaunere President, Founder New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org