Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php4-STABLE-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php4-win32-STABLE-latest.zip

Thank for reply, but my problem stiil exists.

Make fails when using the snapshot too?
So in WHAT part it fails? Please paste a bit more lines
around where it fails.. (NOT the whole output!)

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FreeBSD 4.10-RC2 / php-4.3.6
Oracle 8.1.7.0.1 ( Linux version, works ok with linux_base )

./configure  --with-oci8=/usr/local/oracle8

returns:

........
end_opcode.lo Zend/zend_operators.lo Zend/zend_ptr_stack.lo Zend/zend_stack.lo Zend/zend_variables.lo Zend/zend.lo Zend/zend_API.lo Zend/zend_extensions.lo Zend/zend_hash.lo Zend/zend_list.lo Zend/zend_indent.lo Zend/zend_builtin_functions.lo Zend/zend_sprintf.lo Zend/zend_ini.lo Zend/zend_qsort.lo Zend/zend_multibyte.lo Zend/zend_execute.lo sapi/cgi/cgi_main.lo sapi/cgi/getopt.lo main/internal_functions.lo -lcrypt -lcrypt -lm -ldl -lm -lclntsh -lcrypt -lcrypt  -o sapi/cgi/php
/usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -ldl
*** Error code 1

Stop in /tmp/php-4.3.6.
.....................

For me it fails to!
4.8-RELEASE, php-4.3.6
csdk 2.81.UC1


/bin/sh /usr/ports/www/mod_php4/work/php-4.3.6/libtool --silent --preserve-dup-deps --mode=link gcc -export-dynamic -g -O2  -L/opt/informix/lib -L/opt/informix/lib/esql -L/usr/ports/www/mod_php4/work/php-4.3.6/ext/informix  -R /opt/informix/lib -R /opt/informix/lib/esql -R /usr/ports/www/mod_php4/work/php-4.3.6/ext/informix ext/ctype/ctype.lo ext/informix/ifx.lo ext/mysql/php_mysql.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/libmysql.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/errmsg.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/net.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/violite.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/password.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/my_init.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/my_lib.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/my_static.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/my_malloc.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/my_realloc.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/my_create.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/my_delete.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/my_tempnam.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/my_open.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/mf_casecnv.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/my_read.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/my_write.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/errors.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/my_error.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/my_getwd.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/my_div.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/mf_pack.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/my_messnc.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/mf_dirname.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/mf_fn_ext.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/mf_wcomp.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/typelib.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/safemalloc.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/my_alloc.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/mf_format.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/mf_path.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/mf_unixpath.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/my_fopen.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/mf_loadpath.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/my_pthread.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/my_thr_init.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/thr_mutex.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/mulalloc.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/string.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/default.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/my_compress.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/array.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/my_once.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/list.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/my_net.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/dbug.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/strmov.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/strxmov.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/strnmov.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/strmake.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/strend.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/strfill.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/is_prefix.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/int2str.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/str2int.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/strinstr.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/strcont.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/strcend.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/bchange.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/bmove.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/bmove_upp.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/longlong2str.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/strtoull.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/strtoll.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/charset.lo ext/mysql/libmysql/ctype.lo ext/overload/overload.lo ext/pcre/pcrelib/maketables.lo ext/pcre/pcrelib/get.lo ext/pcre/pcrelib/study.lo ext/pcre/pcrelib/pcre.lo ext/pcre/php_pcre.lo ext/posix/posix.lo ext/session/session.lo ext/session/mod_files.lo ext/session/mod_mm.lo ext/session/mod_user.lo regex/regcomp.lo regex/regexec.lo regex/regerror.lo regex/regfree.lo ext/standard/array.lo ext/standard/base64.lo ext/standard/basic_functions.lo ext/standard/browscap.lo ext/standard/crc32.lo ext/standard/crypt.lo ext/standard/cyr_convert.lo ext/standard/datetime.lo ext/standard/dir.lo ext/standard/dl.lo ext/standard/dns.lo ext/standard/exec.lo ext/standard/file.lo ext/standard/filestat.lo ext/standard/flock_compat.lo ext/standard/formatted_print.lo ext/standard/fsock.lo ext/standard/head.lo ext/standard/html.lo ext/standard/image.lo ext/standard/info.lo ext/standard/iptc.lo ext/standard/lcg.lo ext/standard/link.lo ext/standard/mail.lo ext/standard/math.lo ext/standard/md5.lo ext/standard/metaphone.lo ext/standard/microtime.lo ext/standard/pack.lo ext/standard/pageinfo.lo ext/standard/parsedate.lo ext/standard/quot_print.lo ext/standard/rand.lo ext/standard/reg.lo ext/standard/soundex.lo ext/standard/string.lo ext/standard/scanf.lo ext/standard/syslog.lo ext/standard/type.lo ext/standard/uniqid.lo ext/standard/url.lo ext/standard/url_scanner.lo ext/standard/var.lo ext/standard/versioning.lo ext/standard/assert.lo ext/standard/strnatcmp.lo ext/standard/levenshtein.lo ext/standard/incomplete_class.lo ext/standard/url_scanner_ex.lo ext/standard/ftp_fopen_wrapper.lo ext/standard/http_fopen_wrapper.lo ext/standard/php_fopen_wrapper.lo ext/standard/credits.lo ext/standard/css.lo ext/standard/var_unserializer.lo ext/standard/ftok.lo ext/standard/aggregation.lo ext/standard/sha1.lo ext/tokenizer/tokenizer.lo ext/xml/xml.lo ext/xml/expat/xmlparse.lo ext/xml/expat/xmlrole.lo ext/xml/expat/xmltok.lo TSRM/TSRM.lo TSRM/tsrm_strtok_r.lo TSRM/tsrm_virtual_cwd.lo main/main.lo main/snprintf.lo main/spprintf.lo main/php_sprintf.lo main/safe_mode.lo main/fopen_wrappers.lo main/alloca.lo main/php_scandir.lo main/php_ini.lo main/SAPI.lo main/rfc1867.lo main/php_content_types.lo main/strlcpy.lo main/strlcat.lo main/mergesort.lo main/reentrancy.lo main/php_variables.lo main/php_ticks.lo main/streams.lo main/network.lo main/php_open_temporary_file.lo main/php_logos.lo main/output.lo main/memory_streams.lo main/user_streams.lo Zend/zend_language_parser.lo Zend/zend_language_scanner.lo Zend/zend_ini_parser.lo Zend/zend_ini_scanner.lo Zend/zend_alloc.lo Zend/zend_compile.lo Zend/zend_constants.lo Zend/zend_dynamic_array.lo Zend/zend_execute_API.lo Zend/zend_highlight.lo Zend/zend_llist.lo Zend/zend_opcode.lo Zend/zend_operators.lo Zend/zend_ptr_stack.lo Zend/zend_stack.lo Zend/zend_variables.lo Zend/zend.lo Zend/zend_API.lo Zend/zend_extensions.lo Zend/zend_hash.lo Zend/zend_list.lo Zend/zend_indent.lo Zend/zend_builtin_functions.lo Zend/zend_sprintf.lo Zend/zend_ini.lo Zend/zend_qsort.lo Zend/zend_multibyte.lo Zend/zend_execute.lo sapi/cgi/cgi_main.lo sapi/cgi/getopt.lo main/internal_functions.lo -lcrypt -lifsql -lifasf -lifgen -lifos -lifgls -lnetstub -ldl -lcrypt -lphpifx -lifglx -lcrypt -lm -lcrypt -lcrypt  -o sapi/cgi/php
/usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -ldl

FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE
PHP 4.3.8 (cli)
csdk 2.81

Whenever ad add --with-informix=/usr/local/informix to the configuration arguments, and a make , I get :

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldl