title: Updating MAMP to PHP 5.4.8
body: <p>I used this guide <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1746719/how-do-you-upgrade-mamps-php-to-php-5-3">How do you upgrade MAMP&#39;s PHP to PHP 5.3 ?</a> to update my PHP-Version on MAMP but it does not work.</p>
  
  <p>I'm not sure if I did everything right.
  I downloaded php 5.4.8 und put the folder into MAMP -> conf and renamed it to php5.4.8 to make it even with the other PHP Folders in there. Than I followed the guide, but got the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Binarys-MacBook-Air:~ BinaryCoder$ cd /Applications/MAMP/conf/php5.4.8 
  Binarys-MacBook-Air:php5.4.8 BinaryCoder$ ./configure --with-mysql=/Applications/MAMP/Library --with-apxs2=/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/apxs --with-gd --with-jpeg-dir=/Applications/MAMP/Library --with-png-dir=/Applications/MAMP/Library --with-zlib --with-freetype-dir=/Applications/MAMP/Library --prefix=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.4 --exec-prefix=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.4 --sysconfdir=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.4/conf --with-config-file-path=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.4/conf --enable-ftp --enable-gd-native-ttf --with-bz2=/usr --with-ldap --with-mysqli=/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql_config --with-t1lib=/Applications/MAMP/Library --enable-mbstring=all --with-curl=/Applications/MAMP/Library --enable-sockets --enable-bcmath --with-imap=shared,/Applications/MAMP/Library/lib/imap-2007f --enable-soap --with-kerberos --enable-calendar --with-pgsql=shared,/Applications/MAMP/Library/pg --enable-exif --with-libxml-dir=/Applications/MAMP/Library --with-gettext=shared,/Applications/MAMP/Library --with-xsl=/Applications/MAMP/Library --with-pdo-mysql=/Applications/MAMP/Library --with-pdo-pgsql=shared,/Applications/MAMP/Library/pg --with-mcrypt=shared,/Applications/MAMP/Library --with-openssl --enable-zip --with-iconv=/Applications/MAMP/Library --without-iconv
  checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
  checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
  checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
  checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin12.2.0
  checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin12.2.0
  checking target system type... i386-apple-darwin12.2.0
  checking for cc... cc
  checking whether the C compiler works... yes
  checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
  checking for suffix of executables... 
  checking whether we are cross compiling... no
  checking for suffix of object files... o
  checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
  checking whether cc accepts -g... yes
  checking for cc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
  checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E
  checking for icc... no
  checking for suncc... no
  checking whether cc understands -c and -o together... yes
  checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E
  checking for ANSI C header files... yes
  checking for sys/types.h... yes
  checking for sys/stat.h... yes
  checking for stdlib.h... yes
  checking for string.h... yes
  checking for memory.h... yes
  checking for strings.h... yes
  checking for inttypes.h... yes
  checking for stdint.h... yes
  checking for unistd.h... yes
  checking minix/config.h usability... no
  checking minix/config.h presence... no
  checking for minix/config.h... no
  checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes
  checking whether ln -s works... yes
  checking for system library directory... lib
  checking whether to enable runpaths... yes
  checking if compiler supports -R... no
  checking if compiler supports -Wl,-rpath,... yes
  checking for gawk... no
  checking for nawk... no
  checking for awk... awk
  checking if awk is broken... no
  checking for bison... bison -y
  checking for bison version... 2.3 (ok)
  checking for re2c... no
  configure: WARNING: You will need re2c 0.13.4 or later if you want to regenerate PHP parsers.
  checking whether to enable computed goto gcc extension with re2c... no
  checking whether cc supports -no-cpp-precomp... yes
  checking whether to force non-PIC code in shared modules... no
  checking whether /dev/urandom exists... yes
  checking for pthreads_cflags... 
  checking for pthreads_lib... 
  
  Configuring SAPI modules
  checking for AOLserver support... no
  checking for Apache 1.x module support via DSO through APXS... no
  checking for Apache 1.x module support... no
  checking whether to enable Apache charset compatibility option... no
  checking for Apache 2.0 filter-module support via DSO through APXS... no
  checking for Apache 2.0 handler-module support via DSO through APXS... 
  
  Sorry, I cannot run apxs.  Possible reasons follow:
  
  1. Perl is not installed
  2. apxs was not found. Try to pass the path using --with-apxs2=/path/to/apxs
  3. Apache was not built using --enable-so (the apxs usage page is displayed)
  
  The output of /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/apxs follows:
  cannot open /Applications/MAMP/Library/build/config_vars.mk: No such file or directory at /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/apxs line 217.
  configure: error: Aborting
  Binarys-MacBook-Air:php5.4.8 BinaryCoder$ 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What was my misstake?
  Thank you!</p>