PHP install stops at PEAR

[Patrick Donker <padonker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I've been trying to install PHP 5.1.4 on a deb 3.1 box all day now, but 
something goes wrong during make install, it just plain stops and sits 
there at:
Installing PEAR environment:      /usr/local/lib/php/
Nothing happens, I had it idle for hours, just in case something is 
going terribly slow, but for no avail.
My configure is this:

./configure
--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs
--with-mysql --enable-fastcgi
--enable-magic-quotes
--enable-dmalloc
--with-libxml-dir
--with-kerberos
--with-zlib
--enable-bcmath
--with-bz2
--enable-calendar
--with-curl 
--with-curlwrappers
--with-db4
--with-cdb
--with-inifile
--with-flatfile 
--enable-exif
--enable-ftp
--with-gd 
--with-ttf
--with-t1lib
--with-gettext
--with-gmp
--with-imap 
--with-imap-ssl
--with-ldap
--with-ldap-sasl
--with-mcrypt
--with-mhash
--with-mime-magic
--with-mysql-sock
--with-ncurses
--with-iodbc 
--with-unixODBC
--with-pspell
--with-snmp
--enable-soap
--enable-sockets
--with-tidy
--with-xsl
--with-zend-vm=CALL
--enable-memory-limit 
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/lib
--with-openssl-dir 
--with-readline

No errors during configure or make, it is just make install that stops 
at Pear.
Any hints or suggestions?
I've also tried a manual install using lynx -source http://go-pear.org/ 
| php, but that gives the same result. The deb box is running on vmware 
gsx 3.2.0 in bridge mode, no proxys, stateful firewall which has never 
bothered me blocking incorrectly...

Thanks!
Patrick