Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php5-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php5-win32-latest.zip

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The problem still seems to be occurring.  php-5.0.4 and php-
latest both will not compile the libphp5.so.

I'm hoping sunfreeware.com can help...

sunfreeware doesn't work either.  I'm using Fedora Core 4 and 
cannot get this one part to compile.

I'm having the same issue (it didn't build libphp5.so) with the 5.1.1 when I downloaded it from the website.

My OS: FreeBSD 4.11-stable
My libtool is: 1.5.x

Using the latest snapshot solves this problem, but I am wondering why.

Happy to provide more feedback when asked. :-)

httpd-2.2.0
MySQL-5.0.18-0
PHP-5.1.1

Same stinking message!

httpd failed. The error was: Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 33 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
API module structure `php5_module' in file /usr/local/apache2/modules/libphp5.so is garbled - perhaps this is not an Apache module DSO?
[FAILED]

I have apache2.2.2 on my debian box and tried to install php5 (5.1.2 and 5.1.4 don't work!). Compiling is without problems but apache does not start anymore:

httpd: Syntax error on line 128 of /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 1 of /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.load: API module structure `php5_module' in file /usr/local/apache2/modules/libphp5.so is garbled - perhaps this is not an Apache module DSO?

I did not find anything helpful on the net...

Just compiled PHP-5.1.4. Same issue - Apache not starting with message "libphp5.so is garbled".
Hope it's resolved soon...

I'm pleased to say - it was rather an Apache issue than that of PHP. I've just installed Apache 2.2.2 and voila. Works like a charm! No garbled libphp...

I've got a similar problem with Apache 2.2.2 and PHP 5.1.4. Compiling of Apache and PHP goes through smooth. On their own Apache and PHP work perfect (without the libphp5.so declared in httpd.conf). Once I try to load PHP module in Apache I get 'libphp5.so is garbled' message, although Apache still starts.

This is running on SLED 10. Apache 2.0.58 with PHP 5.1.4 worked fine on SUSE 9.3. So busy downloading Apache 2.0.58 ...

OK. With Apache 2.0.58 it compiled both Apache and PHP without any errors, as before. But this time the libphp5.so seems to be loaded just fine.

"Apache/2.0.58 (Unix) PHP/5.1.4 Server at localhost Port 80"

The issue that I have now is that the .php pages are not parsed, the source is just displayed in plane text ...? The other funny thing that I picked up, the requests to any of the pages hosted by Apache are not reflected in the access_log ...?

OK. I think this is the last one from me.
Apache 2.0.58 and PHP 5.1.4 combination seems to work just fine on SLED 10. It is exactly the same versions that worked on SUSE 9.3 before I upgraded to SLED. Although I still need to get the rest of my extensions running with this PHP install, I'm sure it is not going to be a problem.
It's a pity though that I can't use Apache 2.2.2, well ...