hi again, well sorry about that, it worked when i changed it to:
./configure --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs --with-xml --with-curl --with-swf=/usr/local/flash --enable-ftp --with-gd=/usr --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local --with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6 --with-png-dir=/usr --with-imap --with-ming=/usr/src/ming-0.2a --enable-magic-quotes --with-mysql --enable-safe-mode --enable-track-vars --with-ttf --enable-versioning --with-zlib ...however, now i ran into another problem: Ming! The source is located /usr/src/ming-0.2a and the installed files are located: /usr/lib /usr/include but neither of these 3 is accepted in the configure line. Or can i just leave it in the configure line and then just add the php_ming.so file, copy it into the extension dir and add it to php.ini file? Regards, Duncan