In a note from Adam Trachtenberg's weblog today, he comments about installation issues with apxs2 under Suse 9.1 and Apache 2.

At work, I'm forced to use a Windows XP machine largely because eBay's addicted to Outlook, but also because that's the type of thing you need to do to play nice within a big company. However, that doesn't mean I can't route around this pain, so I installed VMWare and loaded up Suse Linux 9.1 in a virtual machine. Now I can hack on PHP in a somewhat familiar environment.

I say "somewhat" because this is my first time using Suse. I used to run Red Hat and then I moved to Mac OS X on my home machine, so it's taking me a little bit of time to get used to Suse. [...] Suse has a package for Apache 2.0, but not for Apache 1.3, which is a first for me. Also, Suse has organized its httpd.conf file in such a way that all the master file does is Include a variety of specialized child configuration files. Unfortuntately, this breaks the PHP install process.

Thankfully, there seems to already be a comment on the posting, talking about the use of the Apache 2 package instead of their custom Apache 1.3.x source...