I have a custom PHP installation which I compiled because the packaged version was too old for my project.
I would need to install APC, do I need to recompile PHP to add APC module or is there another way?
No, you don't. The simplest way to install APC module is to use PECL as described here: http://php.net/manual/en/apc.installation.php.
php5-dev
package which provides the files from the PHP5 source needed for compiling additional modules.
Jan 16, 2013 at 11:43