Does anyone know how to update/recompile PHP to include IMAP?

Question

I've just installed phplist (http://www.phplist.com/), which is a newsletter mailer based on php. Some of the features require that IMAP be installed with the php installation. Evidently Apple's OSX install does not include IMAP in PHP by default, but presumably IMAP can be added if PHP is recompiled. (See http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.imap.php). I was planning on updating PHP using Alex's very helpful tutorial, available at http://osx.topicdesk.com/content/category/4/18/62/, and at the same time adding IMAP.
Altho Alex does not touch on IMAP in his tutorial, I believe that to includ IMAP in the PHP installation, the configuration string must include "--with-imap-ssl=/sw --with-imap=/usr/share/c-client", or something similar. In any event, it seems that "c-client" does not live in /usr/share nor anywhere on my system, so I have not attempted an installation so far.
Does anyone know how to update/recompile PHP to include IMAP? And if "c-client" is required, how do I intall that first?

Answer 1

Disregard last post--that was a non-starter, but I think I have a successful installation, which I will post here as the documentation on this from php and from phplist is pretty bad:
First get and compile the c-client library, which is necessary for those wanting to run phplist:
sudo mkdir -p /SourceCache
cd /SourceCache
sudo curl -O ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imap/c-client.tar.Z
sudo tar xzf c-client.tar.Z
cd imap-2006h
sudo make oxp
sudo mkdir lib
sudo mkdir include
Next open /SourceCache/c-client and drag all the */.h files (including the aliases) into “include.” Then drag all the */.c files (aliases too) into “lib”.
Find “c-client.a” and change name to "libc-client.a" and place in the lib folder.
Correct permissions on lib and include.
Finally install php (cheers to Alex) as follows:
cd /SourceCache
sudo curl –O http://us.php.net/distributions/php-4.4.7.tar.gz
sudo tar xzpf php-4.4.7.tar.gz
cd /SourceCache/php-4.4.7
sh
CFLAGS=-DBIND8COMPAT
export CFLAGS
sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --disable-dependency-tracking --with-apxs --with-ldap=/usr --with-kerberos=/usr --enable-cli --with-zlib-dir=/usr --enable-trans-sid --with-xml --enable-exif --enable-ftp --enable-mbstring --enable-mbregex --enable-dbx --enable-sockets --with-iodbc=/usr --with-curl=/usr --with-config-file-path=/etc --sysconfdir=/private/etc --with-mysql=/usr --with-mysql-sock=/var/mysql/mysql.sock --with-imap=/SouceCache/imap-2006h --without-pear
sudo make
sudo make install
sudo apachectl graceful restart
exit
One last question, Alex: can I safely delete the SourceCache folder now that the installation is complete? My only concern is that the config string points to items in the folder, and I'm wondering whether I ought to have placed them inside /usr/share instead of SourceCache, or doesn't it make a difference?
Lost count Mac OS X (10.4.9)