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PHP options

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Enable make rules and dependencies not useful (and sometimes confusing) to the casual installer.

--enable-maintainer-mode: Enable make rules and dependencies not useful (and sometimes confusing) to the casual installer.
--with-config-file-path=PATH: Sets the path in which to look for Ini, defaults to PREFIX/lib.
--disable-short-tags: Disable the short-form <? start tag by default.
--with-libdir: Specifies the directory where the libraries to build PHP exist on a Unix system. For 64bit systems, its needed to specify this argument to the lib64 directory like: --with-libdir=lib64.
--enable-zts: Enables thread safety. Prior to PHP 8.0.0 on non-Windows systems, the option was called --enable-maintainer-zts.

Source: appendices/configure/php.xml · from the official PHP manual (php/doc-en)