>> Hello all,
>
> Hi Riba,
>
> I'm very surprised by your "bad experence" because my
> SS5 is running under NetBSD 1.6 since more than 2
> years, many Apache/PHP/Postgresql upgrade and I never
> had this kind of problem.

You are the second person that contacted me who had set up the similar 
setup with zero problems, which frustrates me even more. I'm starting 
to suspect a bad hard drive because of so many failures to compile.

>> all the relevant docs to avoid asking really stupid
>> questions.
>> Basically I need to install apache 1.3, PHP and
>> mysql at minimum.
>
> I use Apache 2.0, PHP4 and Postgresql 7.4 ...
>
> When a "basic software" is needed (i.e: gnu one), I
> build them from pkgsrc.
> But for Apache / PHP or PostgreSQL, I only use the
> original tarball because I want to be sure I have
> exactly the same configuration and compilations
> options (minus optimisation) on all machines I use.

I might give it a try, maybe it will work for me too. Sigh :(