Answering my own problem - may help someone else
More digging around found that this is due to a mysql-5.0.18 bug
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=16520
Regards
xampp wrote:
Having problems compiling php-5.1.2 from source on Solaris 9 (Sparc)
platform - this is also reproducible with php
Having problems compiling php-5.1.2 from source on Solaris 9 (Sparc)
platform - this is also reproducible with php-5.1.1.
php-4.4.2 compiles and builds correctly with similar configure options
as shown below.
It seems to be a problem with compiling in openssl support
Any help much appreciated