Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't all the CFLAGS and configure options and whatnot be contained within a RedHat source RPM? And isn't it supposed to match how the binary RPM was made?

If I'm right, then all those questions about CFLAGS and configure options are moot, as it's supposed to be being built with the exact same options and it's slower anyway.

By performance issues, I mean that with the binary RPM PHP, the SquirrelMail installation responds over its web interface immediately. With the locally-built one, it takes a still small but noticeable amount of time. Given that it'll probably be used by thousands of people, a small wait with no load does not bode well.

I've honestly not had the ability to play with it myself, and I don't know if he's rebuilding Apache along with it or what. For all I know, he's building it in a totally unoptimized manner. But I was hoping someone might say ``Oh, yeah! I've had that problem; use gcc 3.<no one else uses it>''.