sorry for my English Description of problem: some dependences in rpm tree Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): php-5.0.4 from development tree php-devel from the same tree How reproducible: remove automake package install php-devel then try to use $ phpize and you will get an error then install automake+autoconf and everything will be fine so php-devel depend's from automake/autoconf
Thanks for the report.
This was fixed in 4.3.11-2.6 and later.