I compiled PHP3 3.0.12 with the following options:

./configure --with-shared-apache=../apache_1.3.6 \
            --with-gd=/usr \
            --with-sybase=/usr/local/sybase \
            --with-mysql=/usr/local \
            --with-dbase=yes \
            --with-pdflib=/usr/local/include \
            --with-zlib=/usr/local \
            --with-ttf=/usr/local \
            --with-xml=/usr/local/xmlwf \
            --with-config-file=/usr/local/php \
            --with-safe-mode=yes \
            --with-track-var=yes \
            --with-magic-quotes=yes \
            --enable-t1lib=yes \
            --disable-display-source \
            --enable-memory-limit=yes \
            --enable-safe-mode=yes

Then make; make install

Because of the trouble with the '-Wl,-rpath' parameters I patched the file ../apache_1.3.6/src/modules/php3/libphp3.module:

Name: php3_module
ConfigStart
	RULE_WANTHSREGEX=yes
	CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib/mysql"
	LIBS="-ldbf -lpcre -L/usr/local/lib -lz -lm -ldl -lcrypt -lnsl -lresolv -ldmalloc $LIBS -lgdbm -L/usr/lib -lgd -L/usr/local/lib -lttf -lt1 -L/usr/local/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lexpat -lmcrypt -lmhash"
ConfigEnd

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Running the Apache configure script withEXTRA_LIBS=-lbind SSL_BASE=/usr/local/ssl ./configure \
            --prefix=/usr/local/apache \
            --enable-module=ssl \
            --enable-shared=ssl \
            --activate-module=src/modules/frontpage/mod_frontpage.o \
            --enable-shared=frontpage \
            --activate-module=src/modules/perl/libperl.a \
            --enable-shared=perl \
            --activate-module=src/modules/jserv/mod_jserv \
            --enable-shared=jserv \
            --activate-module=src/modules/php3/libphp3.a \
            --enable-shared=php3 \
            --enable-module=unique_id \
            --enable-shared=unique_id \
            --enable-module=rewrite \
            --enable-shared=rewrite \
            --enable-module=auth_dbm \
            --enable-shared=auth_dbm \
            --enable-module=auth_db \
            --enable-shared=auth_db \
            --enable-module=digest \
            --enable-shared=digest \
            --enable-module=headers \
            --enable-shared=headers \
            --enable-module=expires \
            --enable-shared=expires \
            --enable-module=info \
            --enable-shared=info \
            --enable-module=log_agent \
            --enable-shared=log_agent \
            --enable-module=log_referer \
            --enable-shared=log_referer \
            --enable-module=usertrack \
            --enable-shared=usertrack \
            --enable-module=so \
            --enable-suexec \
            --suexec-uidmin=500

and compiling with make; make install generates some warnings but it works then. But when I add the lines

LoadModule php3_module        libexec/libphp3.so

and

AddModule mod_php3.c


Apache fails to start:

Cannot load /usr/local/apache/libexec/libphp3.so into server: /usr/local/apache/libexec/libphp3.so: undefined symbol: dbversion

/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl startssl: httpd could not be started

If I uncomment the both lines for the PHP3 module, all works perfectly.

Kind regards
  Thomas Adamek