There appears to be a bug with ./configure that creeped in between beta3 and beta4, and is still present in RC1

Platform - Mandrake Linux 7.0/Intel

Using the following ./configure options with beta3 works fine:

./configure --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs \
--prefix=/usr \
--with-gd \
--with-mysql \
--with-zlib \
--with-dbase \
--with-filepro \
--with-ndbm \
--with-config-file-path=/etc/httpd/conf \
--with-fdftk=no \
--disable-debug \
--enable-magic-quotes \
--enable-track-vars \
--enable-safe-mode \
--with-exec-dir=/usr/bin \
--with-system-regex

But, when the exact same ./configure command is used with beta4 or RC1, I get

checking whether to include zlib support... yes
checking for gzgets in -lz... no
configure: error: Zlib module requires zlib >= 1.0.9.

From what I can tell by doing a diff, there were major changes in the ./configure script between beta3 and beta4, but I'm unable to isolate it - I'm not that familar with configure scripts..

Mandrake Linux 7.0, Kernel 2.2.14, Zlib 1.1.3

zlib-devel, apache-devel and mysql-devel have been installed