PHP5 with IMAP and SSL support

Building your own PHP with IMAP support is not that hard, but i noticed a lot of people tend to have problems when they want SSL support in it.
You might run into stuff like this (when reconfiguring php f.e.):

configure: error: utf8_mime2text() has new signature, but U8T_CANONICAL is missing. This should not happen. Check config.log for additional information.

This exact same problem came up for me on Fedora when trying to compile PHP 5.5.0.
The problem is related to the '--with-imap' configuration parameter.
In order to solve this problem I compiled my own version of imap from the latest source (currently imap-2007f) and to do that I had to install some prerequisites. On fedora I did this...

yum install openssl openssl-devel pam-devel
wget ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imap/imap-2007f.tar.gz
tar zxvf imap-2007f.tar.gz

Then I had to make a soft link so the compiler could find the libraries. In my case I did the following:

mkdir /usr/local/ssl
ln -s /usr/include /usr/local/ssl/include

and then compile:

cd imap-2007f
make lnp SSLTYPE=unix EXTRACFLAGS=-fPIC

Then I was able to compile PHP by adding the imap source path to the config param like so:

/path/to/php/src> ./configure ...other_params...  

              '--with-imap=/path/to/imap-2007f' '--with-imap-ssl' 
make
make install