Take the 2-minute tour ×  I have successfully configured and
compiled php on my dev server, and works great, but after
talking to a sysadmin buddy, he informed that custom compiles of
the latest builds are not recommended for production (or even
development) systems. He noted a situation where they custom
configured and compiled PHP 5.3.6, only to find that there was
some issue with a low-level Postgres driver, so they had to
revert back to 5.3.3.  So I am considering going back to yum to
install PHP, however I have several custom configuration
settings and was wondering if it's possible to pass or configure
how PHP will be compiled through YUM?  My current configure
line:  Configure Command =>  './configure'  '--with-
libdir=lib64' '--prefix=/usr/local/_custom/app/php' '--with-
config-file-path=/usr/local/_custom/app/php/etc' '--with-config-
file-scan-dir=/usr/local/_custom/app/php/etc/modules' '--
disable-all' '--with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs' '--with-
curl=/usr/sbin/curl' '--with-gd' '--with-iconv' '--with-jpeg-dir