[ridruejo]

The problem tends to be not only compiling PHP itself but the myriad of dependencies for modules, so I assume the project also simplifies the process of downloading and installing those. This is similar to what the BitNami LAMPStack installer does for Linux, Windows and Mac (disclaimer, I am one of the developers). We provide self-contained, binary installable packages of Apache, MySQL, PHP and all of its dependencies http://bitnami.org/stack/lampstack

[yuri41]

Currently it does not solve the problem of the sh*tload of dependencies, though I'm filing an issue for now.

php-build currently solves mainly the problem of configuring PHP correctly, so the build is isolated to the prefix it's installed in (it also sets up PEAR or Pyrus correctly).