I've noticed what is for me a problem in the way phpize is built: the phpize script isn't built until install time, which means that when different options are used for 'make all' and 'make install', it receives the ones used for 'make install'. Although this helps ensure that the path encoded into phpize is the path where PHP will really be installed, it makes things more difficult for binary package managers who want to build complete packages for PHP without installing it on the local system.  Is a compromise possible here, or will package maintainers who want to include pear need to duplicate the work of pear/Makefile themselves?